Paul Prescod writes:
I think that we should use a variant of Docbook and use some SGML minimizations supported by sgmllib (or that COULD be supported by sgmllib). WE can trivially use sgmllib+sax to normalize minimized SGML
So you favor SGML over XML? That had been my original thought, but I shifted as more & better XML tools became available. I am not tied to XML, however. I said:
3. Create something entirely new and specific to Python.
Which Paul questioned:
How is this different from porting over what we have? Hasn't it evolved to be pretty Python specific?
What we have is fairly Python-specific, but there's still a lot of legacy which I'd love to get rid of. I'm not at all convinced that it's terribly *good*. This conversion effort would be an excellent time to use a better-designed structure. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives