XMLizing the Man Pages

From: Saqib Ali (saqib_at_stonebeat.org)
Date: 09/13/03 

Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:13:50 -0700

I am planning to start a sourceforge project to XMLize all the MAN
Pages content. I am planning to use a XML DB like Xindice (
http://xml.apache.org/xindice/ ) to store all the content. All the MAN
pages content will be converted to DocBook XML 4.1.2 (
http://www.docbook.org/oasis/intro.html ).

Apache Cocoon ( http://cocoon.apache.org/ ) + Tomcat (
http://jakarta.apache.org/ ) will be used for publishing the Man
Pages. And ( http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ ) for maintaining the Man
Pages.

I already have the Cocoon + Xindice infrastructure setup at
http://www.xml-dev.com for maintaining FAQs.

People who are fimiliar with DocBook XML will be able to comprehend
why Docbook is a good choice for creating MAN pages. Also XPath
provides a good method of traversing the MAN Pages XML Tree and
linking one another.

I would like to poll the Slashdot readers to see if this worthwhile
project, or is it just a waste of time.<br>n-e-1 interested in helping
with the project?
Saqib Ali
https://gcs.seagate.com/

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