Aug. 27, 1999
4:49 p.m.
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
My concern with DocBook is that the markup may be a bit on the "heavy" side; I don't want the document source to be so markup-heavy that I'm the only one to work on them.
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 to XML.
3. Create something entirely new and specific to Python.
How is this different from porting over what we have? Hasn't it evolved to be pretty Python specific? Paul Prescod