Re: XML DocBook patch

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 23:02, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu> writes:
> 
> > Enclosed is a patch that enables gives gtkdoc-mkdb a new output flag:
> > --output-format=[xml|sgml]
> > When --output-format=xml is given gtkdoc-mkdb spits out xml output as xml
> > rather than sgml (The only difference thus far is that gtkdoc-mkdb closes
> > the anchor and colspec tags and using .xml as the file extension.)
> > 
> > There are also commented out changes that would move the default output
> > directory from ./sgml to ./docbook.  I think this is a more logical
> > directory name but I think it'll require some updates to client makefiles so
> > I disabled it for now.
> 
> I was looking over this patch (very much later....) and I'm wondering...
> Why can't we just always close the tags? 
> 
> If we did that, the only effect of the --output-format switch would
> be the extension of the generated files?

Yes, I don't think it would be a problem. We can just change it and see
if it breaks.

Any ideas about the cross-references?
Maybe we can use a <ulink> element with a special URL type that the help
viewer understands and knows how to resolve.


Damon