From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bischoff To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Docbook tools Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 01:06:00 -0000 Message-id: <99091009111605.00561@r12m10.cybercable.tm.fr> References: X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00083.html > 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 -- __________________________________________________ .~. "Release of Windows 2000 has been /V\ postponed until January 1, 1901" // \\ /( )\ ^^-^^ __________________________________________________ Eric Bischoff - mailto:ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr