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Re: Describing directory structure in DocBook
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org, ndw at nwalsh dot com
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Describing directory structure in DocBook
- From: Stephen Rasku <stephen at tgivan dot com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-to: Stephen Rasku <stephen at tgivan dot com>
>Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 14:07:16 -0400
>From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
>Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Describing directory structure in DocBook
>To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
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>/ Stephen Rasku <stephen@tgivan.com> was heard to say:
>| Does this type of markup exist or is it being considered for a future
>| version of DocBook?
>
>It doesn't exist now. Off the top of my head, I can't decide if I think
>it's worth doing or not. What benefits would you get beyond the display
>(which you could already do inside a literallayout).
>
That's the main advantage I saw. With sophisticated style-sheets it
would be possible to represent the tree graphically instead of with
ASCII art. It would also be possible to represent it in different
forms. For example, like this:
node1-----
/ \
node2 node3
/ \
node4 node5
Which, as you can see, is a lot more difficult to represent than the
other form.
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Stephen Rasku E-mail: stephen@tgivan.com
Senior Software Engineer Web: http://www.pop-star.net/
TGI Technologies