Re: Docbook tools

[Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr>]

> Well I hope we can make the two desktops as compatible as possible,
> but if not, we can at least keep the documentation side together. Just
> for your information I took a look at the new KDE help browser and
> there are many things I like about it. We are close to embarking on
> our own *real* effort at a help browser with two key
> features...hopefully these projects can share some attributes.

I like the KDE help browser too. What I like most is that it makes the man
pages available with just one click of mouse ;-)

> The two key features of our help browser will most likely be [a]
> Mozilla based display. This is why we have no real help browser, we
> want to use the Mozilla Gecko engine to display the content..so we
> wait. [b]We are now leaning toward using XML instead of html for the
> online content. That way we can build feature rich searching and
> indexing based on content. We will keep the ability to view html based
> help but we really want to explore the possibilities of content based
> searching the way it was always meant to be.
> 
> Some things to think about.

Sure. The Linux Documentation Project planned to move to XML-DocBook. How far
are they ?

Eric
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