[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Mark Wickens]

Most people who've worked with xml and xsl/xslt think it's the devils spawn
but yoy can get significant work done with it. It just ain't pretty!

A more DEC centric solution such as vax document would be cool however.
Mark
On 8 Sep 2015 00:57, "Sampsa Laine" <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

> Yeah, that should be doable.
>
> Doesn't even need to be a database, just an agreed markup structure and
> files..
>
> Then just convert them to whatever format you want.
>
> Sampsa
>
>
> On 8 Sep 2015, at 00:06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
> > On 09/07/2015 05:50 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
> >> This probably sounds ludicrous and over-ambitious but would it make
> >> sense to compile the information into a database then run various
> >> scripts to compile files of various formats from it?
> >>
> >> Just the way my mind works :)
> >
> >  Are you kidding??  This is a phenomenally great idea!
> >
> >  About 12-13 years ago I worked on a project building a commercial
> > product.  I was doing the hardware and firmware, but I was able to steer
> > the documentation team a bit.  We ended up writing all of the
> > documentation source material in XML, and we had some XSLT scripts to
> > generate printed manuals, the help files for the application, and the
> > online documentation on the website.  It was all driven from the XML
> > source documents, so it never got out of sync.  It was great.
> >
> >  Sure, I really dislike XML, it's way too friggin' verbose and
> > overcomplicated for what it is, but it has some pretty significant
> > advantages: It's well understood, it's standardized, it's documented,
> > and there are scads of tools out there to manipulate it.
> >
> >                -Dave
> >
> > --
> > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> > New Kensington, PA
>
>
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