Subject: bridging the gap between Wiki & XML
To: None <netbsd-docs@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 10/16/2006 05:24:20
People complain that the DocBook/XML toolchain is too unwieldy/complicted
to setup on the one hand, and (other people) that DocBook is the way to go
to separate design from content.
As an idea to maybe bridge that gap, I've found that the MoinMoin Wiki
software can export a page as DocBook. For an example, goto
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ and at the "More Actions" dropdown menu
select "Render as DocBook".
Long-term I'd like to get back to the NetBSD Guide as our "handbook" in
XML, and having the rest of the website in something more wieldy that
would be nice. We could collect data like what we have in
htdocs/Documentation now, and when it's ripe moce it as a chapter to the
Guide.
Of course that would need someone to move all the contents once more...
:(
- Hubert