From: David Alan Black Date: 2002-02-11T00:26:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Embedded Documentation Hello -- On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Tobias Reif wrote: > Thomas Hurst wrote: [...] > > To this end, an XML output format would be good. > > > Which one? > > When an existing standard is chose, processing tools exist. > Like the XSLTs for Docbook (docbook2html, docbook2xslfo=>PDF) etc. True, but the standard here is really XML, which is nice because it allows for (relatively) easy creation of new applications. Not that I'm opposed to reusing applications (e.g., DocBook)... as long as it's really a perfect fit. > > That can then be > > processed using XSL/Ruby/whatever to turn it into pretty much anything > > else, including XHTML, DocBook, plaintext etc. > > > I'm not sure if I would sit down and write transformations for a custom > RDoc XML language. You could write one XSLT stylesheet that converted the documents into DocBook, and proceed from there. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav