Re: [Cp-tools-discuss] [Fwd: Texinfo Doclet Replacement]

[nferrier]

Julian Scheid <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes it is, but that's not a task so trivial that it could be done by 
> XSLT. This is what Gjdoc is for, and I don't see why and how we should 
> replace that. 

I'm not suggesting that... I think XSLT could do it... but that's
another story.


> Note that Gjdoc doesn't do merely text conversion. One of its main 
> tasks is resolving class names, i.e. understanding that a reference to 
> "Date" in java/sql/Connection.java is supposed to mean "java.sql.Date", 
> unless there is an explicit import statement "import java.util.Date". 
> Perhaps this sounds trivial but it isn't. At least it isn't easily 
> accomplished using XSLT or a similar language. 

Yep.


> IMO we should create a specialized Info generator for producing 
> on-screen docs, and later a generator which produces general-purpose 
> TexInfo. 

It doesn't matter, as long as gjdoc outputs sensible XML.


Nic