Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: [xsl] commenting and documenting XSLT (small survey) From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:07:01 -0400 |
first, thanks for your input.
> What happens when it contains glitches? >
The problems you describe is exactly the reason why i did not develop another format myself.
ReST is a format which I only chose. It seems to be one of the better wiki like ML languages. It is currently in development but seems to be quite usable already. From what I know about it it has some really good developers which have much more experience doing such a thing that i ever might have. (For more details see the docutils website.)
Learnable? Well, it certainly is another language to learn and that's also a complaint I got from an xsldoc user. On the other hand it is quite a simple format (if you stick to the basics which are probably only used for the text in XML comments anyway) but *can* do complex things if you need them.
the process that generates XHTML out of the txt format does give quite good error messages, so it does validate its format. But you are right, that this still is an area which I have not really looked into.
> and how is it specified? If not, who owns, controls, and > maintains the > ur-process that controls everything? > > Also, I question how easy it is to process into XHTML > afterwards. It may be > easy to do the first 80% but I submit that the last 20% -- > and all the > subsequent desiderata like "how do I make a list item with > more than one > line in it?" -- will probably drive you crazy.
that is not the scope of my app as i only use the docutils format and their developers have sorted out the main things already. I am just a user of the format and so have to hope that the docutils project does what they say it should (which i think they do btw).
XML is just not very suitable for the area I need an ML language for. a wiki style ML is much better for that as it is much more readable and writable and IMHO is learnable with neglectable effort.
Cheers, Wendell
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