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

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh%kathe.in@localhost> writes:

> 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?

No. The only complicated part is rendering documentation into PostScript and 
PDF.

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

Definitly not.

Markdown is not simpler than XML because it contains HTML (that is SGML,
not even XML!) as its part. What makes it worse is that markdown is
specified only by implementation, it is non-extensible, and doesn't
support a lot of checks.


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