Re: [Monotone-devel] Documentation Texinfo XML to Wiki converter

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Philipp Gröschler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Philipp Gröschler schrieb:
>> In the course of the current Mini Summit I spent the afternoon hacking
>> on a (yet still) small XSLT file whose purpose will be the conversion of
>> Monotone's Texinfo Documentation to a set of multiple files which can be
>> used for the Wiki.
>> ....
>
> I just committed the first release of this thing, in a very *pre-alpha*
> state. But better than nothing ;-) For further informations please check
> out "nvm.plasma.doc-wiki-xslt" and have a look the documentation
> provided there.
>
> Please let me know your suggestions and if this thing could have a real
> purpose by someday. Just so that I can keep working on it - or not.

What is *your* vision for this thing?  I don't really understand what
you have in mind so it's hard for me to evaluate.  I think we would
prefer to keep the master copy of the manual as part of the main
sources rather than opening it up to wiki-based editing, but that
doesn't mean support for more different rendering formats is
uninteresting -- far from it.

I have to say that my experience with XSLT and related things has been
limited, and entirely bad.  So I'm not going to be enthusiastic about
using XSLT as a key component of my own work process.  But this is a
judgment on the tools not the results, and I would not say that I love
'makeinfo' either.

zw