[Mono-docs-list] MonkeyGuide and Monodoc futures.

Miguel de Icaza miguel@novell.com
Sun, 03 Apr 2005 13:56:18 -0400


Hello,

> Well, till recently the Monkeyguide was following a moving target, which 
> I'm sure made it more difficult to work on then than it would be now.

That is correct;  Well, the `new' directory contains all the changes.

> > So what do you have in mind?  We already have the data in a consumable
> > format (XHTML);  The question is how do we keep it updated, and
> > useful.  
> 
> I'm not so convinced XHTML is the best format to be writing it in.  I'm 
> looking at some of the pages now, and things like TOCs for subsections 
> in a page, copyright lines at the bottom of pages, awkward uses of meta 
> tags to track authorship, etc... These can be abstracted more to make 
> maintaining the pages easier.

We just happened to use XHTML, because it was a simple way of then using
XSLT to do our lame-css and insert standard templates into it.

The later turned out to be a disaster, that I want to rectify.

Miguel