From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,81054609038e88e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-stoc.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.214.MISMATCH!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIFBlcnNzb24=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse References: <2sqmccF1oit5sU1@uni-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:02:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1097370126 217.209.116.179 (Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:02:06 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:02:06 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4976 Date: 2004-10-10T01:02:06+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > Why not use XML ? Shouldn't be too hard to put together > an XML-processor that can do the split-up for you. In fact, > if the XML is designed well, it would not be hard to use CSS > to output different things, different formats, and/or different > parts according to whether viewing (hearing) with a web browser, > a screen reader, or some other @media (device/destination). If you mean including XML tags in the comments in the source code, yes=20 it allows a lot of nice formatting in the generated documents, but it=20 tends to make the source files harder to read. The trick is to find a=20 balance that produces nice documents and doesn't make the comments hard=20 to read for the programmer who works with the source code. --=20 Bj=C3=B6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu