Re: netbsd website written in xml! difficult and heavy?

[David Holland <dholland-docs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:21:21PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
 > hello,
 > 
 > i just read on the netbsd projects list page that the website
 > infrastructure maintenance depends on xml, xslt and make.
 > 
 > does that mean that the website is written primarily in xml
 > and then transformed into (x)html, either via some tools before
 > the pages are put on the website, or at runtime?
 > 
 > isn't that kind of very heavy and complicated?

yes

 > wouldn't markdown be a lot better than xml in terms of being
 > lighter and easier to work with because of it's simplicity?

that's the premise of the wiki setup...

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