Re: [xml] Man page suggestion

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:01:37PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 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.

  I'm going in vacations mid-next week, but that should not block people
from contributing :-)

Daniel

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