On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:57:15PM +0000, Alex Kirk wrote:
> >Perhaps you are not aware, but there is now work-in-progress to
> >convert the NetBSD website to Docbook XML. Docbook is not particularly
> >difficult to write (or read), most people who have never seen it
> >before have commented to me about how simple it is.
> 
> That makes a big difference -- if there's a standardization effort like 
> that going on, there's no reason not to support it. If it's as easly as you 
> say, then I don't see any problems at all. 

We use it for practically all of our doc tree at FreeBSD.org; it really
is quite simple to pick up, plus it has the added bonus of the O'Reilly
book being free and available at http://www.docbook.org for when things
get confusing.

> >For a crash course, take a look at htdocs/*.{xsl,xml} and
> >htdocs/releng/, which is the beginning of making this happen.

I haven't looked at these yet, but you may also want to take a look
at the FreeBSD stuff in doc/.  You may find that Nik Clayton has done
a lot of the hard work for you ;)

Ceri
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