From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 11 3:42:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D6237B404 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 03:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gandalf.online.bg (gandalf.online.bg [217.75.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A926043FBD for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 03:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 31171 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2003 11:38:20 -0000 Received: from office.sbnd.net (HELO straylight.ringlet.net) (217.75.140.130) by gandalf.online.bg with SMTP; 11 Mar 2003 11:38:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 12183 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2003 11:41:10 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:41:10 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Sean Chittenden Cc: David Schultz , "M. Warner Losh" , doc@FreeBSD.org, trhodes@FreeBSD.org, dwmalone@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030311114110.GP578@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Sean Chittenden , David Schultz , "M. Warner Losh" , doc@FreeBSD.org, trhodes@FreeBSD.org, dwmalone@FreeBSD.org References: <20030310195323.GA2812@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030310204035.GU79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030311112105.GO578@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20030311113835.GK79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MdEjg5WkSuUg8x46" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030311113835.GK79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --MdEjg5WkSuUg8x46 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:38:36AM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > I wonder if plain XML and an XSL transformation would not be a bit > > easier to do (and possibly maintain) than all the additional > > hairiness that, with all due respect, DocBook would add. > >=20 > > Attached is a simple example that still needs quite a lot of work on > > the formatting front, especially WRT trimming leading spaces, but it > > demonstrates the basic idea. >=20 > Ooh, fabulous. This is exactly what XML/XSL should be used > for... only problem is that this has the nasty requirement of adding > an xml/xsl processor to the build process. Given the project's > reliance on XML/XSL for the doc builds, having this in the base system > is something that I'd very much like to see. Is there someone in the > crowd who wants to convince the "keep the base tree small" camp that > there is indeed a need and use for the libxml/xslt bits? >=20 > If things get far enough down the road and a shepherd is needed for > the libxml/libxslt bits, I wouldn't mind doing that given that I track > the library pretty closely and know it pretty well too (wrote > ruby-libx(ml|slt)). -sc Actually, there is no real need for having XML/XSL tools in the base system. There are a couple of things in the tree that are committed in a generated state, although in most cases the tools to generate them are also there. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I am the meaning of this sentence. --MdEjg5WkSuUg8x46 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+bctW7Ri2jRYZRVMRAgDFAJsEZhw0eAueEuNvxyrgQWf5s4wYqACdEsVw kHwblpVzIV/63rtmipnZNOQ= =/gd9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MdEjg5WkSuUg8x46-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message