Mark,

I'm not fluent in XML either, however I still managed to hack up the 
attached (from htdocs/bugzilla).  Can we do something with that?

Andrew



Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:09 -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>   
>> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>     
>>> This puts all refpurpose tags and content on one line for better manpage
>>> generation. Also did an upload-manpages. The currrent script expects
>>> this tag and matching closing tag on one line, if it isn't the
>>> description on the man index page will be empty (if someone knows some
>>> sed foo to make this more flexible that would be appreciated).
>>> http://sourceware.org/frysk/manpages/
>>>       
>> Our man pages are in XML for a reason; surely we can make use of that.  
>> A short script should do it.
>>     
>
> Then instead of someone with sed foo, we are looking for someone with
> some xslt foo :) I am sure both could be used to generate the index
> page, I am just not fluent in either. See common/manpages.sh for the
> current script which currently uses just a simple sed invocation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>