[fpc-devel] FPDoc and Lazarus

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Sep 3 18:00:33 CEST 2011


In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > From what I read in this thread, it seems that css use is underused
> > (deduced from the fact that tables and <p> are used).  Your own
> > layouting/styling could be not only the css itself, but the way your
> > resulting html is structured.  xslt could be a natural fit in this
> > respect.  In most browsers you can open the/a xml then with a stylesheet. 
> > Another way to generate with fpdoc could be using some
> > html-snippets/html-templates if they are too overrideable.
> 
> Well, you're free to provide a XML backend. The more backends, the better.
> 
> I think that XSLT and so on are overkill, but if people think a XML backend with xslt can be better, why not...

The html  output is not used only for the website. There is CHM, and afaik
Lazarus now has "help" popups too. Increasing the subset of webtechnologies
means that all other uses must implement/emulate these.





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