From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T02:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth, BlueCloth...

On 4/15/05, David Mitchell <monch1962@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

With that idea added, it sounds much better :) OOo was something I
hadn't thought of; the implications of it's native xml format hadn't
immediately been obvious to me either. Thanks.

cheers,
Mark