Subject: Re: CVS commit: htdocs
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>
List: www-changes
Date: 01/10/2006 15:18:51
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:32:40 +0900
Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:

> In article <20060110122009.GD206@quark.mobile.fnop.net>
> rpaulo@fnop.net wrote:
> 
> > The thing is: it's not just about style. The whole XML infrastructure
> > make _our_ life easier.
> 
> But it also annoys some contributers' life, isn't it?
> Not all people bother to learn XML only for NetBSD, I think.

You are right, but XML is not much different from HTML.

> 
> > Seriously, what's the difficulty in writing a XML page ? Just look at
> > how easy it was done on other Ports.
> 
> If it's really easy, why do you hate html pages so much?
> If you (or other guys) could easily convert them to XML,
> there is no problem.

Well, writing XML pages (instead of HTML) is really easy (this is what
Rui meant), but HTML->XML convertion is not so trivial, alas.

In any case, having HTMLs is much much better than having nothing. So
thank you for initial work!  *<:o)

--
Mishka.