Re: [xml] Man page suggestion

[Daniel Leidert <daniel leidert spam gmx net>]

Am Freitag, den 09.02.2007, 09:10 -0500 schrieb Daniel Veillard:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:05:30PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> was heard to say:
> > 
> > 
> > >   ideally we should be able to generate exhaustive man pages from the
> > > XML description, I just never managed to steal the time to write the
> > > XSLT stylesheet which would do it (and I would need to learn troff too).
> > >
> > 
> > You could skip the latter if you use the XSLT stylesheet to generate DocBook
> > refentries from your XML description. DocBook XML can be transformed to man
> > pages with the official stylesheets.
> 
>   it lowers the geek factor and Norm's stylesheet are a bit scary, but sure
> we are already already using them. Also I'm not sure Docbook is any faster
> to learn than troff ;-)

I already offered my help some time ago, but didn't find time to realize
it. Maybe I can do this next week, if you don't have problems with that.

Regards, Daniel