Luke Kanies wrote:
> On May 14, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Russell Jackson wrote:
> 
>> Luke Kanies wrote:
>>> One thing I'd love to see change is the wiki docs stored in a db
>>> instead of in a version control system; using an SCM instead of a db
>>> automatically gives you multiple interfaces for accessing the data,
>>> and also makes it easy to write tools that validate or munge that  
>>> data
>>> (e.g., extracting it into a PDF).
>>>
>> Did you get those reversed? Trac already stores the wiki content in  
>> sqlite rather than in
>> subversion where it belongs.
> 
> Yeah, I did.  Oops.
> 
>> As far as docs go, it seems to me it make sense to write them in  
>> docbook rather than
>> messing around with far less expressive wiki markups.
> 
> 
> Docbook's all xml, right?  Or something like that?  Expressive, maybe,  
> but not readable unless rendered.
> 

There's an XML dialect, but it is primarily SGML.

I'm not the biggest fan of XML either --as far as writability goes--, but the 
flexibility
that DocBook gives you in the form of output options and the proper separation 
of document
structure and presentation is worth the trouble IMHO.

-- 
Russell A. Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Network Analyst
California State University, Bakersfield

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