On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:45:32PM -0500, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> 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.
I think that XML would be the better choice.
>
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