Re: [xml] Man page suggestion

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:05:30PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> was heard to say:
>
>
> >   ideally we should be able to generate exhaustive man pages from the
> > XML description, I just never managed to steal the time to write the
> > XSLT stylesheet which would do it (and I would need to learn troff too).
>
> You could skip the latter if you use the XSLT stylesheet to generate DocBook
> refentries from your XML description. DocBook XML can be transformed to man
> pages with the official stylesheets.

  it lowers the geek factor and Norm's stylesheet are a bit scary, but sure
we are already already using them. Also I'm not sure Docbook is any faster
to learn than troff ;-)

Daniel

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