Hi Roland, thanks for your comments! >>>>> "Roland" == Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> writes:
Roland> the XWiki format is XWiki-specific (or better: Roland> application/vendor-specific) and is far less capable than Roland> DocBook, e.g. we loose interopabilty, portabilty, all the Roland> processing capabilties the DocBook toolschains have and AFAIK Roland> there are not many editors which have XWiki markup support. I agree that we would lose those things, and I'm not happy about it. But if we're not actually taking advantage of Docbook's features, I don't see this as a compelling argument. I think it's more important to make it easier for people to contribute DevRef updates. So far, I seem to be the only person making changes. Roland> 2. AFAIK the newer DocBook XSLT stylesheets have Wiki support (I Roland> think it's MediaWiki bur I am not sure) - did you take a look Roland> at that yet ? I remember taking a quick look a couple months ago and not seeing support for wiki formats, but I'll take another look. Roland> 3. If we really switch the documentation to the XWiki Roland> format... how do we do the output for printed media or Roland> embedding the documentation in a larger set of docments Roland> (e.g. like a book) ? For printed media, you'd print it like any other page on the site. I don't know how you'd embed it in a larger document like a book. But like I said above, since I don't see people doing that, removing that capability doesn't seem like an important issue to me. Are there people doing things with the DevRef that I'm not aware of? cheers, mike
