[antlr-interest] Wish we had used XML for all documentation now?

Sohail Somani sohail at taggedtype.net
Tue Aug 9 21:37:14 PDT 2005


Micheal J wrote:

>>For the "real" doc (i.e., the ANTLR v3 book) I was going to use latex.
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>What's the advantage (if any) over XML?. I haven't used TeX in any
>significantly angry manner since I discovered Word/PageMaker  ;-)
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XML is not a natural documentation language. Its ok when you have a GUI
in between generating XML files, but otherwise its cumbersome to edit
for extended periods or large documents.

LaTeX is heaven. Its like programming your papers which is more natural
than WYSIWYG.

Sohail


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