Re: Wiki user guide

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

Shaun McCance wrote:
> Now here's everybody's first chance to get in on the fun:
> The code name for the project-as-a-whole is Project Mallard.
> This is sort of an inside poke at DocBook.  But Mallard is
> a dumb name for a help format.  So everybody:
>
> NAME MY XML FORMAT!
>
> That's right.  You can be forever immortalized by having named
> the XML format that will take over the desktop documentation
> world.  A decade from now, an aspiring young technical writer
> will be learning this format in college, as it will then be the
> industry standard.  And she'll be chatting with her professor,
> and her professor will say, "When I was your age, we didn't
> have $FORMAT.  And we had to walk uphill in snow over broken
> glass to get to our text terminals to write documentation in
> DocBook.  But that all changed when $PERSON galvanized the
> industry by naming $FORMAT."
>   
Sounds very interesting Shaun. Here's my attempts at naming;

Simplified Universal Documentation Markup Language (SUDML)
- Sud's cleaning up DocBook ;-)

SimpleDoc

DuckBook - ok this one's a joke

Semantic Help Text XML

Chris