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First off, this is not a discussion on why XML sucks, or why we shouldn't |
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be using XML or anything like that. This is not a discussion about what |
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we should be using instead of XML. This is a discussion about using XML |
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for our webpages. |
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Many projects have old and nasty webpages. This has been a problem within |
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gentoo since before I arrived and probably has been a problem since we |
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started having webpages. One of the issues I wish to address is whether |
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or not writing webpages in XML (Guide or Project or something_else) is |
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just too much of a barrier for many people. I've personally always been |
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pretty much a 'copy something that works and edit the bits I need' kind of |
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a guy. There is certainly a large body of work to steal^H^H^H^H^Hcopy |
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from. However when something you are working on doesn't fit inside of |
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something that has already been done it becomes very difficult to make it |
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'fit' into our existing XML structure. |
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This forces you to either ask for help from the masters of GuideXML (aka |
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the Docs team) or try and figure out how the hell to write the xsl and |
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dtd's yourself, or give up. Personally I think most people end up at the |
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latter case (the giving up one). I know developers that won't even touch |
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any webpages at all; I can only assume that they just hate XML long time |
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and find the whole issue of writing pages complicated and burdoning. |
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So this is getting pretty long winded; my basic question is do you as a |
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developer find writing web pages to be confusing or difficult? Is there |
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not a good tutorial for learning our webpage XML syntax? Do you find that |
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you bump up against restrictions in the DTD or other problems that prevent |
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you from expressing yourself properly? Do you have any idea how to |
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actually go about extending GuideXML (or the other XML's we provide) Have |
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you ever tried? Could we improve training with regards to any of this? |
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Thanks, |
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-Alec |
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