RE: HTML instead of GNU Info? -> XML would be better
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From: Craig Sanders [mailto:cas@taz.net.au]
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 02:18:57PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > With HTML you've got to start a browser and to search HTML, you
> > need a web server with CGI and glimpse or suchlike. And there's no
> > cursor to put on it for dictionary/man lookups or paste-ins. Thus,
> > HTML is much less conveinient, and inferior, IMO. Yes, `info'
> > could be made to look nicer on the screen... on a GUI. Many of us
> > need both X11 and terminal access to manuals.
anyway: provide both formats if possible, otherwise provide the most
"source-like" format from which other formats can be generated (for info
docs, this means texinfo rather than info).
>>>>
Ultimately this problem should be addressed with an XML DTD which
encompasses the needs of both formats.
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