we just wrote a web app which uses xml/xsl processing to create web pages, so decided to write the docs in xml too. nice text based format for the doc, easily readable & updateable by us, easy to version control etc.
we use xalan/xerces from xml.apache.org to transform the xml into pdf/html using xsl/fop for presenting to users etc - bit of work setting it up, but we'd done most of it already for the app so it wasn't much work, and now its set up its a lovely method, just edit the xml and run a script to output to pdf/html.
anorakgirl
ps i do think we have a habit of doing things the long way round though, sticking with text editors & scripts rather than using ready made apps...:)
but i do keep paying BT a fortune everytime i move house (i rent) and have to pay off yet another years contract cos i can't take it with me and i never stop somewhere for a that long. [and bt just announced a loss too, despite making a fortune from me...]. lucky work pays for my line at the moment really.
personal view: fast access is great but too expensive and too much of a hassle and this is holding people back. i'm sure if they just networked the country, it would pay for itself soon enough.
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we just wrote a web app which uses xml/xsl processing to create web pages, so decided to write the docs in xml too. nice text based format for the doc, easily readable & updateable by us, easy to version control etc.
:)
we use xalan/xerces from xml.apache.org to transform the xml into pdf/html using xsl/fop for presenting to users etc - bit of work setting it up, but we'd done most of it already for the app so it wasn't much work, and now its set up its a lovely method, just edit the xml and run a script to output to pdf/html.
anorakgirl
ps i do think we have a habit of doing things the long way round though, sticking with text editors & scripts rather than using ready made apps...
i'm not goin back to my modem, no way!
but i do keep paying BT a fortune everytime i move house (i rent) and have to pay off yet another years contract cos i can't take it with me and i never stop somewhere for a that long. [and bt just announced a loss too, despite making a fortune from me...]. lucky work pays for my line at the moment really.
personal view: fast access is great but too expensive and too much of a hassle and this is holding people back. i'm sure if they just networked the country, it would pay for itself soon enough.