I'm not sure how much DocBook gains us. I can see the following benefits:
- easy conversion to non-html formats (like print)
- conformaty with other open-source projects.
Besides that, I don't see the advantage over XHTML.
If I were to imagine the ultimate format, it would be XML that was
specif
Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>For this to work, someone would need to invest a significant chunk of time
>in developing the format, and making sure that tools were available
>to convert it to other formats.
Don't bother -- use DocBook instead: the tools are already available
and they
Guille -bisho- wrote:
>
> >There is a proposal outstanding on the apache-docs list to convert the
> >docs to XHTML. The reasons for this are:
> [...]
>
> And why not go directly to XML???
Because writing XML by hand sucks, and the existing XML development
tools suck worse.
I write in POD, beca
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Guille -bisho- wrote:
> >There is a proposal outstanding on the apache-docs list to convert the
> >docs to XHTML. The reasons for this are:
> [...]
>
> And why not go directly to XML???
>
I have no objection to that. It may be a good idea. However, it is not
something tha
>There is a proposal outstanding on the apache-docs list to convert the
>docs to XHTML. The reasons for this are:
[...]
And why not go directly to XML???
All the apache docs usually follows the same structure, so it would be easy to
define a set of tags for each function:
Module
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> > 2. We wait about two days to make sure eveyone has a chance to
> > read this thread and voice their opinion on conversion to XHTML.
>
> OK, here is a lurker's opinion :-)
>
> Have you considered the problems that ma
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Patrik Grip-Jansson wrote:
> OK, here is a lurker's opinion :-)
Always welcome!
>
> Have you considered the problems that may occur with older browsers that
> doesn't support XHTML? Some old browsers doesn't handle tags without
> closing tags, such as or , very gracefully.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Joshua Slive wrote:
> 2. We wait about two days to make sure eveyone has a chance to
> read this thread and voice their opinion on conversion to XHTML.
OK, here is a lurker's opinion :-)
Have you considered the problems that may occur with older browsers that
doesn't support
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:44:04AM -0800, Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> There is a proposal outstanding on the apache-docs list to convert the
> docs to XHTML. The reasons for this are:
+1
Cheers,
-g
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, James A Sutherland wrote:
> > OK. Since I made a start on this a while ago, I'll volunteer to make a
> > start -
> > I don't have commit access, though, so who wants to handle the patches? Or
> > can
> > I get commit access on docs? Just lowe
> Okay, here is a suggested course of action:
>
> 1. I will give a "heads-up" to the new-httpd list later today
> on the XHTML issue to make sure nobody there objects.
>
> 2. We wait about two days to make sure eveyone has a chance to
> read this thread and voice their opinion on conversion to XH
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