Larry Kollar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Reading the discussion, I feel like Bernd's objection is based on a
> perception that ESR wants to *replace* groff -man with DocBook, where
> I believe he wants to use DocBook as an *interchange* format for all
> system documentation.
That is correct. It is why I keep emphasizing the distinction between
presentation and transfer or interchange formats.
> Having looked at DocBook (and worked with XML
> in general) myself, I believe that interchange (rather than
> authoring) is its best use.
I agree, though I am personally willing to author in DocBook.
> In other words, write your documentation
> in whatever markup you're comfortable with and translate it to the
> interchange format.
Here is a slightly expanded version of a diagram I posted back towards
the beginning of the discussion:
+-------------+
| man pages |-----+
+-------------+ | +--------------------+
| +--->| HTML on browsers |
+-------------+ | / +--------------------+
| Texinfo |-----+ /
+-------------+ | +-------------+/
|-------->| XML-DocBook |
+-------------+ | +-------------+\
| asciidoc |-----+ \
+-------------+ | \ +------------------------+
| +--->| PostScript on printers |
+-------------+ | +------------------------+
| other... |-----+
+-------------+
The box in the middle is intended to indicate the use of DocBook as a
common interchange format.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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