RE: Documentation templates and references

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Eichwalder [mailto:ke@suse.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 10:26 AM
> To: Joakim Ziegler
> Subject: Re: Documentation templates and references
> 
> 
> Joakim Ziegler <joakim@styx.net> writes:
> 
> |   In fact, if you avoid this and a couple of other SGML-specific
> |   constructs, you'll be able to port the SGML documents to 
> XML without
> |   any changes (except the header) when that day comes.
> 
> . You'll have to change empty element tags nevertheless.
> 
> . It will be easy to "convert" SGML documents to XML.
> 
> . There will be no need to convert SGML documents; they will 
> stay valid
>   forever :)
> 
> If a writer feels comfortable using SGML minimizations, he should
> be allowed to use these features.  

Within reason.  If we allow stupid ammounts of minimization as in the
example that Telsa posted, then writing in SGML is little or no
better than writing in plain text because we can't do anything with
it.  I'd agree that we shouldn't say "You CAN'T use SGML
minimizations", but rather we should say, if you're going to use
them, these are some guidelines that you really should follow.
	Greg

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