APT documentation format

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Has anyone else looked at the apt format? It's more like a wiki markup than xml. The xdocs format is transformable, but the apt format isn't. We can easily convert to apt, but not the other way around. Seems like we'd lose a lot of work (or be creating a lot of work) the next time we switch d

Re: APT documentation format

2006-03-02 Thread James Holmes
I'm curious about this too after having spent the time to convert 10 - 15 pages. The APT format is very limited. For example, I don't know of a way to insert images into a table. I'm sure there are a million other examples like this. James On Thu Mar 2 9:39 , "Mike Kienenberger" sent: >Has an

Re: APT documentation format

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Hey James, I do appreciate your effort you've put into this, and it's not any reflection on your work. I also think the APT format is going to be limited, whereas an XML format is in theory going to allow us to do anything that the underlying media will support (in this case, html). Also, I'm no

Re: APT documentation format

2006-03-02 Thread Sean Schofield
APT is nice and simple but I agree its limited. I was thinking we should switch back to xdoc where it makes sense. It might be nice to have a "download box" on the rhs of the page like like the maven home page has. Sean On 3/2/06, Mike Kienenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey James, > > I