Re: DocBook
"W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> writes:
> Quoting Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>> We would love to get the input of someone with prior DocBook experience
>> on a style guide. We need a document format and supporting
>> documentation that lists the subset of DocBook that will be used in
>> Policy and exactly when particular tags should be used. If you would
>> be willing to work on this, please mail debian-policy@lists.debian.org.
> Volunteering. I have some years experience in DocBook XML, both in free
> software projects as well as in non-free projects in a Windows shop. But
> no time for this until 5.0 release is out :~)
Excellent, thank you! And understood -- I know a lot of people are going
to be busy until lenny releases.
> (I once wrote a "lint" like tool in Python and libxml2 that checked
> compliance of DocBook files against a style guide, but I can't find it
> anymore. Maybe it's time to start from scratch.)
A tool like that would be fantastic.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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