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Subject:Re: Rant: Giving up on XML From:Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwhirlers <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:41:42 -0700 (PDT)
The XML documentation is for the most part abysmal.
There are a few exceptions which others will
undoubtedly post.
Open Source software is like any other software. Its
quality depends on the vision of the team, and who
leads it, and who documents it.
--- siliconwriter -at- comcast -dot- net wrote:
> After weeks of research, reading and studying, I'm
> throwing in the towel on XML. I was really hoping I
> could use DocBook to turn the output of our code
> documentation software into a manual, but no such
> luck.
> Until now, I was an eager devotee of open source
> software.
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