Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:31:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: darklogik@pittgoth.com, FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should i be using sgml or xml? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112211219001.57948-100000@fluoxetine.lan> In-Reply-To: <20011221103158.N51511@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Nik Clayton wrote: NC> We could add this to the doc/share/*.mk files relatively easily, except NC> for the dependence on the XML catalog file (which could be added to the NC> docproj meta-port). NC> NC> Thoughts? My thoughts, for what they are worth, are that I can see a small advantage in having XML as a potential doc output format, although I have yet to work out what advantage XML has over HTML for this kind of work. I don't really see a disadvantage (I doubt this bloats the toolchain significantly) and it does seem that the world is moving slowly towards XML being the defacto standard for everything. Perhaps now is the time to start playing around with it. After all, by your timescale, there are > 18 months to play :) Incidentally, I was amused, and somewhat irritated, to find that Office 2k outputs XML with a .html extension when you choose 'save as HTML'. I do wish software wouldn't lie about what it is doing... -- Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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