From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 3 19:29:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D50637B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B4B43E4A; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 702289E5D; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:22:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 22:22:11 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: Ernst de Haan Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021003222211.D14121@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <20021003222102.90460.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <200210040049.05902.znerd@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210040049.05902.znerd@FreeBSD.org>; from znerd@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:49:05AM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ernst de Haan writes: > If most file formats would be XML-based (yes I know XML should not replace all > file formats, but it comes a great way) then these formats would be leveraged > by the fact that there are a lot of XML tools available, like XML editors and > XML transformation processors (XSLT). It's easy to convert from one XML > format to the other, making the generation of DocBook or XHTML documents a > /lot/ easier. I've always wondered what a Makefile would look like in XML. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message