> I don't think any of the top-level capitalized docs should be turned
> into XML. They are for people to bring up in an editor (emacs, of
> course :-), not a web browser.
...and before a release is made, they are run through the proper
style sheet to turn them into 7-bit ascii format suitable for loading into a
plain editor.
However, I need to use them and manage them so they are digestable
from the web, with <a href="foo">foo</a> links intact (and clickable), which
in an editor, would become rapidly annoying.
> But isn't it easy to bring up text directly from the CVS, too? I mean,
> for the README, I can type
> http://www.plkr.org/index.pl/cvs/README?rev=HEAD, and get a perfectly
> readable version.
The point is to make the content maintainable, while separating it
from the presentation layer, much like I've done with the news articles on
the site right now. The next step to that, of course, is storing content
(and not presentation) in a database of URLs, which users can then choose
from for their own needs, and arrange accordingly.
/d
