linux-kernel - Re: Documentation files in html format?

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Message-ID: <20070809191036.GA23596@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:10:36 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation files in html format?

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> :
[...]
> I would say the track record of existing DocBook deployment is not good enough
> to justify further use. Plain html can be converted into all these
> formats easily too and overall it makes a much nicer user experience.

xsltproc converts from docbook to html fast enough (PDF with a docbook
Java/fop toolchain is a different story). Your experience is a bit
outdated.

> Also I would expect much more people will know how to write html versus
> DocBook.

Yes, it is easy to write more or less random html. I'd even prefer plain
utf8 text.

-- 
Ueimor
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