Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:48:08 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubleshooting tree revisited Message-ID: <20001205094808.A1241@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> 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 References: <nik@freebsd.org> <46729.975969901@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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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
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