Transitionning from DocBook SGML to DocBook XML (fwd)

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 11:00, Chris Lyttle wrote:
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> Hi all,
> I have been aware for some time that the GNOME documentation will be=20
> transisitioning to XML as the standard for documentation. As we are doing=
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> a re-write of the manual I thought that this would be an excellent time t=
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> develop the docs for the new standard, which also has the benefit that it=
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> will be ready for gnome2 with minimal changes.
> With this in mind I enquired about the practical issues of doing this. I=20
> have forwarded the below message to help clarify what is involved. Daniel=
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> also told me on the #docs irc channel that KDE has been shipping docs in=20
> this format for 6 months so there should be no platform issues, however w=
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> may want to make dependecies on the tools used to convert docbook XML to=20
> HTML in the build.
> In doing this we will be one of the first major apps for GNOME shipping=20
> docs in the new format. Please let me know if anyone has issues with me=20
> doing this. My intention is also to enable ScrollKeeper support and=20
> indexing in the docs.

That sounds great. What would the software requirements be?

dave


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