Re: [PHP-DOC] XML-Version of FAQ From: Martin Edelius (martin.edelius <email protected>)
Date: 06/29/00

Important question! Which version of the FAQ is this?? If it's the one at
www.php.net then it's an old and faulty FAQ. I have a new one that I'm about
to commit to the CVS as soon as I get my account. I'm more than happy to
send it off to anyone who feels that they can convert it into a better
format instead though.

Please get back to me about this asap.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Martin Edelius

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Livieratos" <stefan <email protected>>
To: "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <hartmut <email protected>>
Cc: <phpdoc <email protected>>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] XML-Version of FAQ

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut <email protected>>
> To: Stefan Livieratos <stefan <email protected>>
> Cc: <phpdoc <email protected>>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DOC] XML-Version of FAQ
>
>
> > Stefan Livieratos wrote:
> > > I converted the HTML version of the FAQ page into well-formed
> > > XML and wrote an XSLT stylesheet for automatically numbering the
> > > sections and the questions. I converted the XML version into HTML
> > > with Xalan-J (http://xml.apache.org/xalan).
> >
> > > I have attached the XML document, the XSLT stylesheet and the
> > > resulting HTML page for you to look through. If nobody objects
> > > I would like to commit the files to phpweb.
> >
> > two things about this:
> >
> > 1) i think this deserves a 'phpfaq' CVS repository of its own
> >
> > 2) what about using docbook xml and dsssl as in phpdoc project
> > instead of introducing another bunch of tools and concepts?
>
> Well, I did this primarily as an exercise for building XSLT stylesheets.
> What I like about XSLT is that I can browse the result of the
> transformation with IE 5.0 and check it immediately.
> I also thought that a simple XML structure of the FAQ XML document
> (which I borrowed from the Cocoon project) is better because people
> would rather contribute.
> I don't mind if you want to convert the FAQ to docbook but quite
> frankly I think it's an overkill.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>