Re: Oracle Help or Java Help -- how to choose?

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> See, now this is what mystifies me.
> 
> I see so many of these discussions amongst my list colleagues, and
> I'm baffled at what seems to be needless, tool-driven complexity.
> Every platform has a quality HTML client.  Why not just design,
> write, and master help systems in naked HTML (XHTML if you're smart)
> and port it and style it later if you have to?

Two words: "pure Java"

> Seriously, what's wrong with single-sourcing in XHTML?  I want to
> understand this.

Absolutely nothing. But it has nothing to do with your previous question. ;-)

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