possible documentation viewer?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Henrik Nilsen Omma">

> Jeff: are there any inherent advantages to storing the help files in
> Yelp-type-XML over more standard HTML given that  they would be displayed
> by Yelp in either case?

Standardisation, common display, translation infrastructure, applicability
of advanced functionality in the future (indexing, context-sensitive and
topic oriented help), commonality with upstream, etc. DocBook is a standard
that we can rely on - delivering lowest-common-denominator HTML as a way of
avoiding the set of things we need to address with DocBook is reactionary
and compounds the problems we'll have in the future.

I'll be writing more about this in my analysis of breezy goals next week.

- Jeff

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