Re: Template for GNOME man pages.

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

John Fleck tapped out: 
> 
> I've been writing the libxml2 and libxslt man pages in DocBook, then
> using the DB->man xslt stylesheet in docbook cvs to convert to the man
> page for distribution.
> 
> see gnome-xml/doc/xmllint.xml and libxslt/doc/xsltproc.xml for the
> DocBook markup, and contrib/xsl/db2man/db2man.xsl in DocBook cvs for the
> stylesheet I use to convert it to a man page (thanks to Martijn van
> Beers for the stylesheet).
> 

When you say "convert it to a man page", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean 
that the final output is nroff? If so, why not write the man page in nroff in 
the first place? What's the aim of writing in one format (xml) if we have to 
convert to another? 

Pat