I agree with Anil.  I think we should ditch the wiki based guides and
replace them with static files which are maintained in svn and are
packaged with each release.  I thought we had said something about how
the OO doc could be exported to html right?

-- Allen


On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 09:11, Anil Gangolli wrote:
> Every time I edit the InstallationGuide pages I either screw up the 
> & entities in the context.xml examples or find that someone else 
> has. It really makes it a pain to edit either of these pages.
> 
> This time it was me; editing with Firefox 1.5.  I was eventually able to 
> get the & entities corrected after switching to IE and trying a few 
> different alternatives.  Not sure exactly which combination worked.  The 
> behavior appears to differ if you preview or not.  If you preview and 
> then hit Keep Editing rather than back, your & may become an &, 
> despite what you saw in the preview.  You'll see about 3 different 
> versions in the wiki change log as I fumble with this.
> 
> The issues with & treatment in browsers can bite both when we edit 
> this page (whether you touch these portions or not), and apparently also 
> at times when users cut and paste from the page.
> 
> Long ago I attached downloadable versions of these files in order to try 
> to avoid issues related to browsers interpreting the & entities, and 
> added a recommendation that people use them.   By my own informal 
> reckoning, this did indeed cut down on the number of issues related to 
> incorrect ampersands in URLs.
> 
> At this point I'd like to suggest that we go entirely with the 
> downloadable versions of these files and drop the inline versions from 
> the wiki page.  For my part, I'm very reluctant to spend any more of my 
> time fixing & signs on the wiki anymore.
> 
> Frustrated,
> --a.
> 
> 
> 

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