FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Checkins

[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many people have suggested XML of some sort, both onlist and off. 
While I don't object to it as a source format, I think that it is probably a 
poor choice for distribution. It can be ... wordy. :-D 

Honestly, I see XML as sort of a pain. I wouldn't want to do the extra work, 
personally. But if someone wants to go to the effort of making a schema and a 
DTD and an XSLT (I hope I got the acronym right) and THEN go and start 
building these things and be the point person for helping others to build 
them, go for it. 

Michael

On 2004-03-02 at 21:23:44 [-0500], Scott Mansfield wrote:
> 
> On Jun 2, 2004, at 5:45 AM, Michael Phipps wrote:
> 
> > One choice is man. Another would be HTML. We could include Lynx or
> > something.
> > I am sure that there are other formats out there that could work, too,
> > but I
> > would bet that HTML is going to be a pretty good choice. The criteria,
> > I
> > think would be:
> > 1) Must work from the command line
> > 2) Format must be hyperlinkable
> > 3) Must be *reasonably* compact in format
> > 4) Viewer can not be enormous
> > 5) A GUI app would be nice. HTML might make sense, here, because they
> > could
> > be an additional directory to the OpenBeOS Book
> 
> How about SGML and docbook or XML and saxon?
> 
> -Scott