[Opensource] Expresso documentation structure

Peter A. Pilgrim peterp at xenonsoft.demon.co.uk
Wed Dec 10 14:52:10 PST 2003


D Lloyd wrote:
> Sandra,
> 
> I did alot of the work with regurd to its current look and breaking it
> into html files.  I can make the footer changes you would like when/if
> these are decided upon.
> 
> As far as people wanting to use a tool, I don't see the problem.  I also
> would like to see it kept in a nice readable format as I also edit it with
> a simple text editor.  As a compromise to the group what does everyone
> think about a pretty-text formatter tool for the XML so that it can be
> edited with tools that do not format it nicely and then beautified before
> check-in?  If no tool exists, I have written them for other XML formats
> and could do the same, hopefully ;>  It is a matter re-marking it up based
> on the DTD, which is why I have not found one in the past I have liked.  I
> think it would also be nice if the beautification step worked consistently
> enough that changes were easily differenced.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

No objection. I have some tools like ``Pollo'' where naughty in not
PRESERVING BLANKSPACE. This is very important obviously in the <programlisting>
tags. As an example of this, I made a booby with `dbobjects.xml' just now
and had to go back basic EMACS editing.

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