Re: Re: the public build of the manual failed

On May 2, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Lorenzo Alberton wrote:

I wonder if having an online testbed would be possible: a textarea where I could paste the xml code and have the compile report back, immediately, without the "one-week" time frame...

I think LiveDocs is supposed to do something like that, but I can't get a straight answer from any of the LiveDocs advocates here on the list. I think it's vapor at this point (but I may be wrong, willing to accept proof of my wrongness). In the mean time, it's funny you should ask. ;-) The Yawiki project is one possible solution; it's not DocBook, but it is online and with immediate feedback. Try the Yawiki sandbox ...

    http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Sandbox

... where you can edit any page any way you like. The feedback loop is immediate (save-and-view). The entire wiki.ciaweb.net site is based on Yawiki. No, it's not DocBook markup, but Yawiki uses Text_Wiki, and Text_Wiki has a stated goal of converting not only to XHTML but to DocBook and other formats as well. I think David Costa is working towards a wiki-to-PearDoc conversion of some sort, but I may be wrong there. Hope this starts to help. :-) -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty for PHP. http://phpsavant.com/ DB_Table: build RDBMS tables and XHTML forms in one PHP class. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=DB_Table Yawiki: your collaborative online documentation system. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Yawiki