On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, David Abrahams wrote: > I've been watching this thread go by; kept a bunch of messages in my > inbox because I didn't know what to make of them, and now I realize I > still don't. It looks like there is going to be a big learning curve > for me; I have practically no XML/XSLT experience to begin with, not > to mention that I don't understand lots of other issues. Should I be > doing something other than sitting on the sidelines? > > -Dave
You won't need to know any XSLT unless you want to introduce additional features into BoostBook. The learning curve for XML is practically nonexistant. There's a few lines of boilerplate code for identifying a particular document as a BoostBook document. From there on, it's just a matter of matching tags :). I've found XML tools to be quite good: parser error messages are generally quite obvious, and some text editors can help avoid lots of dumb mistakes. In the next few days I'll be writing a tutorial on BoostBook, describing the documentation of a small library (boost::any). That should drastically reduce the hassle of learning BoostBook, and make it feasible for others to try it out. Doug _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost