Re: [xwt-users]Introduction to XWT

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> > What benefit would Gentoo's XML bring us (other than buzzword compliancee)?

> 1) simple (which it is),

HTML is simple.


> 2) can be exported to DocBook,

Why should I care about this?


> LateX,

Why should I care about this?  BTW, HTML can be exported to LaTeX, but
I have no idea why you'd want to do that.


> HTML

HTML can be exported to HTML using this nifty utility called 'cat'.


> and hence PS/PDF through one of the above)

HTML can be exported to ps/pdf; the w3c's specs come out quite nicely.


> and 3) the Gentoo docs really look really nice.

Well, personally I think the reference looks cleaner/better right now
than the gentoo docs, but there's nothing in the gentoo docs you can't
do with CSS.

...

I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but HTML *is already* SGML
(and XHTML is already XML), which means that translating it into other
forms of SGML is very easy.  And the huge benefit is that:

  1) Everybody already knows HTML.

  2) Your document is "instantly viewable" without running it through
     some tool.  Which, btw, Charlie, is why I haven't bothered to
     read your tutorial yet.

For a document at the complexity level of the reference (very low
compared to something like a book), all the XML/SGML formats are
essentially interchangeable.  I think we should use the one that's
easiest to edit and view as the primary format and translate into the
others on an as-needed basis.

If you guys want to switch to strict/validated XHTML for the
reference, I'm fine with that.  Then we're just an XSL away from any
other format your heart desires...

  - a