On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:44:39AM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp says "We use DebianDoc SGML for > our documents", and the policy says the same. However, more > and more documents in and for Debian are in fact written using > DocBook/XML. My plea is to officially allow DocBook/XML. There is already documentation in Docbook/XML (the repository-howto, the "Debian Library Packaging Guide" and the "XML SGML policy") so I would say that Docbook/XML is allowed in the DDP as long as the packages that are used for HTML generation are available in our stable release (the servers which build up the CVS of the DDP are running stable). There's really no reason why Docbook/XML shouldn't be used if the document requires it. Most documents use Debiandoc-sgml because they don't require the features that Docbook/XML can provide (tables, figures, etc.). They could be "prettier" if they used Docbook/XML instead of Debiandoc-sgml but the markup of the former is easier to learn. Regards Javier
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