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Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools



joh@gmx.net said:
> This requires the user to know which DTD his document follows, but at
> least there would be one wrapper instead of two. 

Y'know, I don't like writing software that actually interacts with users, but 
by the time I set my mind to it, I get very anal about doing it right. Having 
the user provide information that's available loud'n'clearly in the first 
handfull of lines of the file doesn't sound like good UI design to me; 
certainly not if the only advantage in this scheme is on the programmer's side.

The SGMLtools model is that the user can say "please convert this to 
PostScript", and let SGMLtools find out what "this" exactly is.

Period.


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