From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Aug 28 7:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC59314E04; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 07:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com (ppp18345.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.25]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA25835; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA50177; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:37:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:37:36 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DocBook formatting style? Message-ID: <19990828103736.C49983@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> Reply-To: hoek@freebsd.org References: <19990823141611.A1770@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823172005.C42397@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908250049.JAA00382@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp> <19990825115510.A96398@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990825194348.G18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990826141141.F24968@futuresouth.com> <19990827105043.A15526@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990828145129.A5750@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990828145129.A5750@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:51:29PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:51:29PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > problem above. And, with an eye to the future, while we're not using XML > now, I wouldn't be surprised if it played a much more significant role in > our documentation tool set in 12-18 months time. What are the advantages of XML? I remember jfieber had a rather negative opinion about it... (But that was a long time ago when it was first announced). [Short summary form, eg. "Better support by applications", is acceptable... :-] -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message