[Javacavemaps-developers] specs and documentation and docbook, xml

[Larry G. <jav...@ya...>]

Ok well the problem was that it will become tough to edit larger spec documents using sourceforge's web interface editor.  XML seems like a good solution because of the structure of the specifications. Each part of the specification is a branch in a tree. There is always XHTML but I'm not sure how sourceforges editor will handle XHTML.  DocBook is a SGLM application in the same way that XML and HTML are.  DocBook in recent years has gone the XML way as HTML has become XHTML the latest DocBook is XDocBook more or less. In 
other words DocBook now is also XML using DocBook DTD's.  I have installed some plug-ins in eclipse under their Web Tools Platform stuff.  I can edit xml easy enough. Had some problems when trying to use the DocBook DTD though.  Now I'm looking into ways to convert the XDocBook document into Html that sourceforge's editor will like.  I tried to use MS Word outline editor and then save as HTML, man, horrible html.

 Larry Gray
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