hello, first: thanks for this thread! -Tlint is helpful.
> > I assume the reference to Docbook, which might indeed capsize > > like an overweight freighter, but XML is such a simple and robust > > form of structuring documents that it's going to outlast us all. so is fortran probably. this is not about being relevant: it's about being here in an economic system with no interest for hidden technical details. > Even if XML-DocBook doesn't flourish as a transport format in the > future, one benefit of the lift is that you can style much > higher-quality HTML by going man -> XML -> HTML than you can with > any of the direct man to HTML converters out there. I loved the docbook structure and metainfos but ran away because of xml. Nowaday i have the same problem with html so i wrote a preprocessor and finally switched to a more popular one from the js world: pug (wich was close enough from what i had anyway). so now i can reconsider xml(svg,...)/html the way i consider the ps or pdf format: i never edit or read it. the combo pug/docbook would be nice to me but i have the feeling that xml (and its well deserved decay) killed docbook. is the docbook community still active? are the tools maintained? regards marc
