[Plplot-devel] api.xml patch + DocBook building rant

[Rafael L. <ra...@de...>]

Could one of you make me a favor and apply the patch below to api.xml?  Past
night I had problems with my production workstation and I cannot easily
connect to the cvs server @ SF.  Also, I am unable to check my e-mail now (I
am following plplot-devel at the Web interface, though).

This patch fixes some typos and xml syntactical problems that have been
introduced recently.  Hopefully, the building of the Octave documentation
will work now for everybody.

I am just realizing that when Octave bindings building is enable, we must
check in configure.ac for the presence of some of the Perl modules.  This is
done currently only for the DocBook documentation.

Also, this last problem with api.xml makes me think that it is very
important that all developers could at least check for validity of the xml
code they cvs commit.  For instance, one of the typos my patch below fixes
is a stupid '</setc1>' that should be '</sect1>'.

Joao, I understand that you dislike DocBook, but could you please clarify
why?  When you say that you are not going to "serve" this technology, what
do you mean exactly?