Re: Why Docbook and XML in the first place ??

Michael Crawford wrote:
> DocBook also allows you to publish to crazy formats like Microsoft
> HTML Help, and I expect Apple Help as well, if one were to try.

ok maybe, but these formats sound so much "20th century"...

> What's really the most important about DocBook though is that the
> markup is semantic and structural.  That makes it really easy to
> generate things like indices, tables of contents and bibliographies.
> That would be much more difficult if you started with HTML.

then why docbook and not LaTex or ...

> While print-specific CSS stylesheets can improve the quality of web
> page hardcopies, there's no way they would ever match the quality of a
> PDF generated by DocBook.  Consider, for example, being able to buy
> dead-tree editions from http://www.lulu.com/

but ... "you can't grep dead trees" :-/

regards,
> Mike
yg

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