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

[Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%kathe.in@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:52:15AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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...

i'm sorry but i didn't understand the statement above.
could you please elaborate?

thanks,

~mayuresh