At 16:55 Uhr -0500 24.02.2002, Erik Price wrote:
>On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 11:27  PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
>>If you are interested in doing this, it will be easiest if you can write
>>the documentation in the same flavor of XML which is already being used.
>>Well, that is not documented! :-)  But there are examples, in the XML
>>source of the existing documentation.  You can find this in CVS; if you
>>are browsing CVS via the web, you want to go to web/xml and then you
>>will see appropriate subdirectories.
>
>I wish I had noticed these files earlier!  The XML that is used for 
>the already-existing documentation is much simpler than trying to 
>recreate the tags used in the HTML source from the web pages.  Dave, 
>you should have just told me to go there and change the 'passwd' 
>submission to conform (to save you the trouble of having to 
>"translate" it ;)
>
>I browsed through fink/web/xml quite a bit, since I'm really 
>interested in learning more about XML.  But there's one thing I 
>can't find, I would assume to be an important part: the DTD.  In an 
>early revision of 'faq.xml', I noticed that Christoph had been using 
>one called "finkdoc.dtd", but I can't seem to find it.  It also 
>appears that current documents do not point to a DTD.

There is no DTD.


>Is there somewhere that the definitive list of elements and 
>attributes used by the various documents, like a DTD or schema of 
>some sort?  The XSL sheets might not include every possible tag, so 
>I don't want to depend on those.

The XSL sheets are your reference :-) But I think you can use 
arbitrary XHTML in your code, too.


>I'd like to write a simple doc about contributing FAQs, to solve the 
>dilemma you mentioned above, and a simple template for FAQ 
>submissions would be easier if I had a complete list of elements.

No such things exists. Anyway, I personally have no problems with 
"translating" plain text FAQ submissions into XML myself, that's 
about the easiest part of it, IMO :-) But if you feel like it, sure, 
go ahead.


Max
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