From: David Mitchell <monch1962@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T18:59:36+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth, BlueCloth...

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:33:03 +0900, Mark Hubbart wrote:


> ow ow ow. Maybe it's just me, but maintaining a large document like
> the FAQ in xml seems masochistic, when there are nice human readable
> formats like markdown or textile around.
> 

Bit of finger dyslexia...

The bit I thought I typed, but obviously didn't, is that you can generate
and maintain XML using a nice friendly tool like OpenOffice.  Load the FAQ
into OpenOffice, edit it, save it in OpenOffice's native format.  

Then write a (Ruby?) script to unzip (gunzip?) the OpenOffice file into
the underlying XML format, run XSLT over it and you've got your ASCII
text, HTML, whatever equivalent document.

Reading my earlier post, my brain just must have turned off at some point
because what I set out to write is nothing like what actually came out of
my fingers.  Friday night here, so that's probably the explanation.

Dave M.