[dev] help.xml

Marko Djukic mdjukic at horde.org
Mon Oct 25 08:42:14 PDT 2004


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Marko Djukic <mdjukic at horde.org>:
>
> > What is the reason behind using xml in the help file? Couldn't the same be
> > achieved with just simple html markup and css?
>
> Part of the idea is other formatters, I think. So pdf, whatever...

But then in the case of PDF formatters you could use the xml parser nonetheless.
Just don't see the usefulness of naming what could be <p> as <para> and then
parsing back to <p> for HTML which is the most common of displays...



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Marko Djukic
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