Re: New Skencil website

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Joonas Paalasmaa" <address@hidden> writes:

> FAQ:
>   I couldn't get faqdom.py in tools directory working. The following error
>   message was printed with Python2.2.

Which version of the _xmlplus package?  I currently use 0.7.  It may be
that faqdom uses an old interface that is not supported anymore in newer
versions.

> I printed the type of domfaqlist just
>   before the error and it was xml.dom.minidom.DocumentType. Perhaps we
>   should migrate to something like makefaq.py that generates html files
>   from XML faq sources,

Do you mean http://www.lodestar2.com/software/makefaq/ ?

>   because porting fagdom.py from SGML to XHTML may be quite difficult.

It shouldn't be difficult to add XHTML output.  It already supports both
plain text and SGML and XHTML output would work very similar to the SGML
output.

Not that I'm particularly attached to faqdom :).  One of the reasons I
wrote it was to play around with XML and the python XML parsers.


> Release Notes:
>   NEWS and DEVNEWS seem to be in a format that Docutils text processor
>   package understands.

That's a coincidence.  No doubt partly because rst is meant to be
similar to common plain text formatting conventtions

> There is rst2html.py script in Docutils distribution
>   that can create html pages from NEWS and DEVNEWS.

What do they look like?

> Bernhard Herzog wrote:
>> skencil-web already exists and is used for the old site.  It was renamed
>> by the savannah folks when the project was renamed.  Better use
>> something else.  How about skencil-org?
>
> Perhaps directory name "skencil.org" would be the best choice?

That would be OK too.

   Bernhard

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