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On 2004-10-25, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My idea actually would be this: Keep makedoc, but remove all output
> plugins, and just make it output the above XML. This means, we can
> keep the easy hand-editing with ._tx (and a lot of its commands
> could be removed), and still get all the advantages of XML.
>
> The output plugins then would be completely separate, reading in
> the XML, and generating output in some format. The big advantage
> of that, there is no more undocumented internal format. Those
> output plugins would just use a simple XML parser, and process
> the elements.
>
> In summary, the new makedoc and output generators would be shorter
> and contain simpler code than the current solution - and things
> like the missing sections in PDF just would work or at least be
> easy to fix (no need to e.g. touch the HTML output generator for
> that, like currently).
The output plugins sound like what I never managed to acomplish in
the makedoc cvs module... Feel free to add there whatever you want
to hack on.