Back to documentation issues again. Awhile ago we talked about
and decided on using the DocBook DTD, which is accepted/endorsed
by the Linux Documentation Project. http://www.linuxdoc.org/
Our original plans were to use SGML, which made sense to me
because that was what the LDP was using. Some recent developments
should warrant a current discussion on whether to use SGML or XML.
1) I notice the LDP is now accepting DocBook/XML.
2) From the book, _DocBook, The Definitive Guide_, the quote:
"XML is intended to alleviate compatibility problems with browser
software; it's a new, easier version of the standard rules that
govern the markup itself, or, in other words, a new version of SGML.
The rules of XML are designed to make it easier to write both applications
that interpret its type of markup and applications that generate its
markup. XML was developed by a team of SGML experts who understood
and sought to correct the problems of learning and implementing
SGML."
If you are knowledgeable in this area, please weigh in with an
opinion. We're going to need good docs soon, and since we don't
have much of any yet, I'd like to settle on a standard.
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Kevin Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MandrakeSoft, Inc. Plex86 developer
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ http://www.plex86.org/
