[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: libxml2 Documentation

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:27:12 -0600

Thanks, Christian. this is useful information. I like reading source 
code, but sometimes I succumb to the hope that reading documentation 
will be faster. It is with liblouis and liblouisxml even if I say so.

John

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:11:30PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> 
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to read the libxml2 documentation to see what facilities it 
> > has for generating xml and to get acquainted with the Xpath facilities. 
> > However, it all seems to be formatted with two columns, which makes 
> > reading with a braille display or translating impractical. Presumably 
> > the original .texi files are formatted sensibly. Where could I find 
> > them? 
> I would presume that a site like http://xmlsoft.org/ creates all their
> documentation from xml files. I tried to find the source of the
> documentation in the source code repository under
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/doc. There is a lot of stuff there,
> howver it appears that the api documentation is built automatically by
> parsing the source code. So you probably might as well read that.
> 
> Aside from that I found what they call a "flat view" of the web page
> (http://xmlsoft.org/xml.html), but this doesn't seem to include the
> reference manual.
> 
> Hope that helps
> -- 
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z??rich, Switzerland
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