Re: glibc FAQ -> HTML FAQ convertor

[Andreas Jaeger]

Ulrich Drepper <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> The script can produce both depending on a parameter - plain text as
>> now and also HTML so that we can put the output on the web.  We will
>> still ship a plain text version of the FAQ with glibc.
> 
> So this programs is adding nothing we need in glibc and just makes the

It's something we need for the web-pages - and it's far better than my
hacked version, I do need the html output.

> program to generate the plain text code more complicated with the
> additional risks of bugs in a new program (unlike the old tested
> version).  And tomorrow somebody wants to add conversion to man pages,
> or POD, or ...

I don't expect this to happen.

> If you want to change something which is useful then do it right.
> E.g., write a script which can transform from DocBook (or a subset
> including the FAQ tags) to plain text.  Then you can use generic SGML
> tools to convert to whatever other format (HTML is already one
> possibility).

I prefer to stick with the current format,

Andreas
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