I agree with the choice of an XML-based documentation format. Seems to me
that this allows transformation of the docs to other formats, anyway.

DocBook seems like a good choice to me.

Just two more cents...

-tfo

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've started work on a longer guide for Xalan-C++. I started using Docbook 
> (as xml), but realized it might be nice to ask everyone what they think is a 
> good format. I'm not very far into so it won't be a big deal if the consensus 
> is not Docbook.
> 
> Docbook seems adequate to me because:
>   * xml format with xslt for transformation - seems like we should use xml 
> tech for our documentation. :)
>   * extensible but has a *very* rich set of tags and styles
>   * fairly well distributed and used (well, at least on unix systems.)
> 
> And as I don't know of too many other xml-based documentation formats (other 
> than html), it was kind of the first choice. :)
> 
> Any suggestions are well-appreciated, both for format or content. I can post 
> the current outline if anyone is interested to the list or put it up on a 
> webserver.

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