Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org> wrote:
 
> Although, we could create a XSLT stylesheet to convert special XML
> files to manpages... should be easy and useful.

Well, there's DocBook's 'RefEntry', which is SGML.  I wrote a perl
script that converts RefEntry-SGML into man-page format.

The project itself has stagnated, but that little script may still be of
use to some: http://mama.sourceforge.net/perl/current/doc/html/

Examples of SGML input and man-page output are available at
http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/ (another somewhat abandoned project
of mine)

-Jan

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