From: Andreas L. <no...@sb...> - 2001-05-25 21:31:48
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On 25 May 2001 23:24:10 +0200, Eric Bezault wrote: > Andreas Leitner wrote: > > > > Btw, in eXML I now use XM_ as a prefix, but the bridge implementations > > use TOE_, EXPAT_, and EIFFEL_. I have not thought about renaming them > > yet, because I think of them as non user visible. What is your position > > on this Eric? > > There are not visible by the users but there are visible > by the compiler. So I think that the class name prefix > rule should apply to all classes since its goal is to > avoid class name clashes. Ok. No problem. > > Another question, do you use any tools to write the docs? > > My docs is currently written in HTML and I use Microsoft > Frontpage (yes I know, shame on me ;-)). It has been two > years now since I seriously considered using the XML > DocBook format to write my docs. But I never found time > to actually do it. Do you think DocBook would be a good > choice to write the docs? It has the advantage of being > XML, used in the Linux community for writing docs and > hence there exist several tools to convert it to many > other formats such as HTML, pdf, Postscript, etc. Do you > think it would be possible to write such a tool with > eXML to convert a DocBook XML doc into HTML for example? > That way using the DocBook standard we would be able > to generate our home-brewed HTML format to be used on > the Gobo project Web page. Sure, why not. Have not looked into DocBook yet, but I think it should be doable. Don't know how much work it will be though. Gotta check the DocBook specs sometime... > > PS: I created two mailing lists in the gobo-eiffel sourceforge > web page today, but the archive for the gobo-eiffel-develop > returns an error whereas the one for gobo-eiffel-commits > seems to work. Do you have any clue what's going wrong? Yeah, saw this problem too. Maybe some cron job needs to go over the mailing lists first... Dunno Andreas |