Re: manual: little errors?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 05:56:49 -0500
> > From: Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: manual: little errors?
>
> > > Definitely true,
> > >
> > > this reminds me:
> > >
> > > Could we switch to XML DocBook now?
> >
> > I've been browsing around a bit, and failed to find a good explanation
> > of the benefits of XML DocBook over SGML DocBook.  Could you expand a
> > bit on why we should switch?
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2003-January/msg00151.html
> 'because Gnome is switching' (and KDE switched ages ago)
> makes for better integration and easier maintainance (would be nice if
> distributions like redhat did not need to install a variety of different
> help browsers).

That is a minor reason.

> having difficutly myself finding the reasons i read about why Gnome was
> switching (i tried, before and i know it did not imagine it) but the XML
> and SGML versions of DocBook achieved parity, XML has more modern
> maintained tools available for it.  (not sure if you can do XSL with
> SGML, it seems like on of the benifits of SGML).

That is a minor reason.

> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-June/msg00032.html
> this mail makes the point that browsers (such as Mozilla) stand a chance
> of reading of XML docbook (unlike SGML).

Somewhat.

> Almost missed this, at the end of the same message, which is easily the
> best reason i have heard so far for moving from SGML Docbook to XML
> Docbook "plus DocBook will be *only* XML by 5.0."

Now *that's* a good reason.  I'm looking into what it takes to change under
Unix, using the zip package mentioned earlier.

-Lars

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