RE: automatic generation of quickref.html

Charlie wrote:
> I third the motion.  I originally generated quickref.html from an XML
> file.  The idea being you could generate a man page and quick
> reference from the same doc source.  I have attached what I think are
> the original XSLT stylesheet and XML data file.

I very much like your XML file.  Perfect.
 
> You end up wanting to embed basic HTML within the documentation for
> each option.  Modularizing HTML is still pretty much broken. 

What kind of HTML do you want to embed?  Something like ... 

	<tag> tag's contents </tag>

... doesn't work?  What are you trying to do?

> What most folks end up doing is embed CDATA sections, in which 
> case the result is no good for man pages.

Maybe it's not getting parsed?   Also, something like this might provide a
base:

	http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/latest/doc/manpages.html


/Jelks



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