XML usage
| From: | Gabor Hojtsy | Date: | Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:50:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | XML usage | ||
| Groups: | php.doc.chm | ||
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Hi!
As I searched some more info on XML compatibility
in IE browsers, I am not convinced, that this would
work in the browsers we currently work with (inlc.
IE 4).
The most important thing about why I would not like
to start working with generating XML stuff now, is
that some time ago I wrote many PREGs to extract
things from DSSSL generated HTML files, and many
people convinced me, that using XSLT is the right
way, so I started to use the XSL DocBook sheets
(which are available for HTML and Print versions).
I quite nicely figured out how to do things, and
how to customize the ready made HTML sheets. Though
it was a development from the ground up, as PREGs
are not too useful as a base if you develop XSLT.
Now, as we are talking about generating some custom
XML format, there is no XSLT to generate it, and so
we need to ge even deeper, as we have no base (like
the ready made HTML sheets for DocBook), we can use.
If we start again from the ground, no release time
will come with all the features and staff anounced
(including the skining, and other nice features).
So, let's work with HTML from now on. It is even the
native format of HTML Help [thus the name HTML Help
:) ], and it will even be a base format in MSHelp 2.0
[no, not XML will be the base format].
Goba