okay. see the tip-of-the-moment at the bottom of this email?
they're getting rave reviews for the newbieDoc team at
http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ -- but there's a problem:
right now these tips are in a home-grown text format that's
only slightly more ugly than your average perl hack.
# ...skip ahead to the tip we want...then
$tip = ''; $author = '';
while(<TIP>) {
if ( !/\S/ ) { last; };
if ( s/^=// ) { $author .= $_ ; next; };
$tip .= $_;
}
<alert="newbie">i hear XML can do this kind of thing.
...
</tip>
<tip approximation="vague" quality="wild guess">
<title>Getting Apache to lie</title>
<author><first>Will</first><last>Trillich</last><email>[EMAIL
PROTECTED]</email></author>
<author><first>...
<text>First, munge your <file>/etc/apache/httpd.conf</file>:
...
</text>
</tip>
<tip>
...
</alert>
so--
who among us debianistas has knowledge of the names of the tools
we'd need in order to:
1) get started with the right command-line XML gizmo
(maybe a document-structure-definition thing, too?)
2) do cgi/mod_perl interface for a web front-end to
create/browse these tips
3) munge the back-end data into and out of xml, including
(ignorance showing, here) gizmos needed to create the
data structure of the xml
i've seen LOTS of this-and-that for xml, including extensions,
style sheets, path stuff (?) and more. a bit overwhelming.
i'm looking for something like
"oh, grab Frammistat::XML-wonk from cpan, and use it
with apache/clavis (available at www.somewhere.there) or
maybe try the webmin module newbie-xml-toolbox ..."
ideas (and, of course, newbieDoc xml volunteers) welcome...
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #5 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
What's a "MANPAGE"? It's the documentation you get when you enter
"man <something>" such as "man sources.list" or "man interfaces"
or "man bash".
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
