Re: [xml] [Proposal] How about write a book for LibXML2?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:25:55AM +0800, Yang Songxiang-a22301 wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I used the libxml2 package recently, found it's a perfect XML parser.
> The example codes/document are good for a newcomer to use the LibXML2,
> but they lack of enough detail information. I had to dig into the
> sources code if I want more furthermore details. I think we can write a
> bible book, give a complete introduction for LibXML2 package, not only
> it's calling convention, but also including it's design framework.

  I had been approached a few years ago about writing a libxml2 book,
but it's a lot of work, I didn't had the time (and not much more now)
and it was made relatively clear that financially that may not be very
interesting.
  I don't have much time, so when i have some for libxml2 I prefer to
focuse on bugs or improvements that other contributors are less likely
to provide.

> My draft idea:  
> 1) Generate a DocBook framework, 
> 2) Anyone can select a chapter that he/she interested. 
> 3) Organize all chapters into a complete LibXML2 bible book. 
> 
> 
> I think this would help a lot for many C/C++ programmers who're the
> first time using LibXML2, and would make LibXML2 more popular in C/C++
> domain. Maybe the book can be published by O.Reilly if it's good enough.
> :)
> 
> What's your opinions?

  Sounds better than a wiki in my opinion, I'm fine adding this to CVS
and integrating patches to the docs as they come.

>  Best Regards
> -Scord
> 
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Daniel

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