On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:36:25PM +1030, syngin wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 10:19, degger@xxxxxxx wrote: > > On 5 Dec, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > > > it might be a good idea to keep the help pages in a format that can > > > be read with standard browsers ?! > > > > XML is a standard, if you have Mozilla for instance you can the the > > transformations in realtime; that's not my point though. At the moment > > it seems like overkill to fire the DocBook source through Jade, import > > the HTML file by file into the GIMP tree just to have the helpbrowser > > or a different one decipher the crappy output. If we could browse the > > source directly on any platform and get additional features we'd be > > way off and if someone actually cares about HTML pages he/she should > > feel free to get the HTML package or PDF or whatever. > > Perhaps this is an option if we can list all the main Operating Systems > that The GIMP is used on, and locate a common application accross all of > them that can adequately render XML. Linux -> Mozilla, Windows -> I.E. > etc. (making the rash assumption that all Linux users have Moz ;) I'm not sure this is a good assumption. I, for one, don't have Mozilla on my system (but I may be the exception, I don't know -- I live in a sheltered world). On the other hand, if you have XML sources and stylesheets for marking them up, then any application that can take *xml + *.xsl and turn them into whatever output format you want is sufficient. And they are going to be a dime a dozen on Linux (people have indicated Mozilla already does it, xsltproc from lib-xslt already does this and can be piped to any web browser pretty easily, etc). Cheers, Malcolm -- I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called?
