From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 11 13: 7:27 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 DF36737B401; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:07:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDAC43FE9; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:07:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@perrin.int.nxad.com) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 796222106F; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:06:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:06:55 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030311210655.GM79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> 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> <20030311114110.GP578@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20030311115403.GL79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030311154838.18926.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030311154838.18926.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ 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 > > Well, I think the project is vastly under estimating the value of > > being able to generate code, documentation, or other textual bits > > based off of XML and that some XML/XSLT processing tools in the base > > system would improve the quality of the OS by quite a bit. It's not > > like I'm talking about the python bindings here either, just the xml > > and xsl parser and transformation engine. -sc > > I understand by your statement that you intend to add further > XML to the base system (configuration files, blabla). :) Actually, I'm one who'd resist the idea of XML configuration files. XML for the textual bits so that after a transformation, the end users never know there was any XML involved in the process (read: documentation). 0 < XML < * -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message