From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Dec 5 2:26:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 02:26:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE4837B400; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 02:26:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eB59m9B01361; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:48:09 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:48:08 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Nik Clayton , Michael Lucas , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubleshooting tree revisited Message-ID: <20001205094808.A1241@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <46729.975969901@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <46729.975969901@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:45:01PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:45:01PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > If the markup format is DocBook (or, at the very least, something XML > > based) then it's relatively easy to convert to HTML, and write another > > application that parses the XML and displays flashscreens to the end > > user. > > Hmm, but what would be the other use for the XML? If the decision > tree parser spits out HTML, I don't see much of an issue in what it's > internal "database" format is How many variants of HTML is it going to kick out? One question per page? All questions in one page? One section per page? How do I specify the conversion process (i.e., the stylesheet that's applied) to migrate from the internal document format to the HTML. How do I make it easy to translate the decision tree text to other languages? How do I flag certain questions as only being appropriate for specific releases of FreeBSD? Keeping the decision tree in DocBook (whether it's DocBook/SGML or DocBook/XML is irrelevant) makes all this possible with our existing tool chain. > and an XML parser would only make it harder to write. :) ports/textproc/libxml2. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message