Support Forums: Message List - The Smallest DocBook Big Picture http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Wed, 22 May 2013 13:14:01 -0400 Re: The Smallest DocBook Big Picture http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Does anyone have an recommendations for light-weight (preferably free) XML editors that are schema aware? Ideally this editor would be able to stand alone....]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:01:40 -0400 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:01:40 -0400 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:01:40 -0400 Oct 16, 2007 neal cowles 0 Re: XSLT versus CSS http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:17:44 -0400 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:17:44 -0400 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:17:44 -0400 Oct 4, 2007 Knut Forkalsrud 0 XSLT versus CSS http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:07:09 -0400 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:07:09 -0400 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:07:09 -0400 Oct 4, 2007 Knut Forkalsrud 1 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Effectively none, save that most every computer in the world can render the latter (in some manner), and not the former....]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:04:34 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:04:34 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:04:34 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Watson 0 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:50:34 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:50:34 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:50:34 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 Will Hartung 0 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Isn't that really just reproducing DocBook in a less readable way? What's the advantage? More flexibility?...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:47:38 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:47:38 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:47:38 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 Will Hartung 1 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118
The key for me is that like the extra semantic information in DocBook. For example, in my DocBook, I might have a code listing element. In HTML I can use a PRE element.


I disagree. HTML can preserve the...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:51:10 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:51:10 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:51:10 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Watson 2 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118
The key for me is that like the extra semantic information in DocBook. For example, in my DocBook, I might have a code listing element. In HTML I can use a PRE element.


I disagree. HTML can preserve the...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:45:53 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:45:53 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:45:53 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 Joseph Ottinger 0 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 The key for me is that like the extra semantic information in DocBook. For example, in my DocBook, I might have a code listing element. In HTML I can use a PRE element....]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:42:29 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:42:29 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:42:29 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 Hiram Chirino 4 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 My question is why I would want write documentation in HTML?


You could use a wiki that generates the HTML if you don't wanna use HTML. Though there's a ton of rich HTML editors these days including the browser...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:02:51 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:02:51 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:02:51 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Watson 0 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 CSS! There's no need to put any formatting in your HTML other than the basic headings, paragraphs, lists and bold/italic. Let CSS do the rest....]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:00:40 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:00:40 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:00:40 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Watson 5 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118

This is a good way to manage media in HTML, but HTML still translates poorly to books, and compliance with CSS levels is various browsers is still unreliable.


I agree that CSS levels at...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:40:32 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:40:32 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:40:32 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Strachan 7 Re: Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118

This is a good way to manage media in HTML, but HTML still translates poorly to books, and compliance with CSS levels is various browsers is still unreliable.


I agree that CSS levels at various browsers...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:31:40 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:31:40 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:31:40 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Watson 8 Docbook is dead.. Long live HTML http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 ...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:54:18 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:54:18 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:54:18 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 Hiram Chirino 10 Re: The Smallest DocBook Big Picture http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47118 Rami has written "The Smallest DocBook Big Picture," a good bird's-eye view of the documentation standard. DocBook is an SGML schema ideal for authoring articles (or...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:13:55 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:13:55 -0400 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:13:55 -0400 Oct 3, 2007 James Watson 1