[vdr] Re: Some suggestions,

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:29:23PM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Mixich" <sp.amix@gmx.net>
> To: "vdr" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:09 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Some suggestions,
> 
> 
> > Rene Bartsch wrote in a Mail about "[vdr] Re: Some suggestions,":
> >
> > > Great idea! What about XML?
> >
> > DocBook *is* actually XML.
> >
> > But I wonder why not Texinfo ? That translates to Latex
> (DVI,Postscript,PDF),
> > GNU-Info,  HTML and I am sure there is other conversion possibilities.
> >
> 
> Because XML is the new, internationally standardized
> page-description-language and even is or will be implemented into every
> simple text-editor/office-package.

I wonder what you are smoking, that must be really good stuff. :-)


And btw. XML is NOT a page-description-language it is a data-format for
structured data. Not more not less. You CAN (mis-)use it as a better
"HTML" or something like that, but it's not the main-purpose of XML.





Bis denn

-- 
Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as 
bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, 
cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.



-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to listar@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.