Re: [screen-devel] Re: screen maintainer?

[Micah Cowan]

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Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> Sorry to break in the middle of the conversation, but maybe this is
> interesting for you (if not, just ignore this post).
> 
> I know that fvwm uses and xml/xsl solution, which, from the same xml files
> creates a man page, and a lot of html files, they both are equivalent, and
> this way they save the pain to:
> 
> a. replicate work
> b. maintaining both parts in sync
> 
> I haven't much idea on how it works, I have edited some of this xml files
> to add some bits here and there for a couple of custom patches, but nothing
> else. Anyway, I know that libxslt is involved and xsltproc is used to parse
> all the stuff. I thought that maybe it's interesting for you, as said, if not,
> just forget about the post.

I've had experience using DocBook XML and XSLT to do such things, and I
like that approach. I'm not crazy about it in our situation, though, as
I think it would be much more work to generate a man page and info
manual from XML (and write the necessary XSLT or DSSSL to do so) than
the other solutions (stub manpage, or generate manpage from texinfo).

If we were just interested in HTML, hardcopy, and manpage, it might be
an agreeable solution (though we'd have to translate the current texinfo
file to XML); but as it's a GNU Project, we need to have an info manual
as well.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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