From: james@...
Date: 2002-02-24T04:09:09+09:00
Subject: RE: rdoc/xml questions

> From: Tobias Reif [mailto:tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com]
> james@rubyxml.com wrote:
>
>
> > Now, when I mentioned RDF for rdoc, I was *sure* there was some use of it for software
> > modeling, but right now I can't find a sutiable reference. (Perhaps Tobias
> knows of one?)
>
>
> Some googles; I don't know how well they are suited (no RDF):


The problem I have with many of these markup syntax is that the specific cases often  do
not do quite what I want (or require you to opt-in to a particular modeling philosophy),
and the broader, extensible formats become annoyingly complex for even simple
descriptions.

There's a tradeoff when buying into someone else's spec: you get some reuse of tools and
whatnot, but you may have to kludge the syntax to express what you want.

As with the discussion on a Ruby-way XML API, rdoc may do best with a Ruby-way markup
syntax (whatever that happens to be).


James