From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 2 20: 6:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skippyii.compar.com (mail.compar.com [216.208.38.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D7B37B424 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (88.POOLDEF.TOR3.enoreo.on.ca [216.26.97.88]) by skippyii.compar.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f433Av039536; Wed, 2 May 2001 23:10:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008001c0d37d$4719cda0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Doug Young" , "Wes Peters" Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= , References: <039501c0ce26$fccdaab0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AE84A97.AFC183EB@softweyr.com> <069301c0d07b$f23861b0$0400a8c0@oracle> <3AEE45AD.33DE4C0A@softweyr.com> <01d001c0d37a$bf39f010$0300a8c0@oracle> Subject: Re: VPN Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:00:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Why is there a need for something as weird as DocBook anyway ?? > like why not use common or garden variety html ?? Because HTML is just that - a specific markup language, for one purpose - online display. DocBook easily allows production in many end-user formats - HTML and PDF to name two. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message