XML to troff/man pages

Ernest Prabhakar (prabhaka@apple.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:16:34 -0800


Hi guys,

Perhaps you can help me out in the castration of Apple.

Our doc team really hates writing in troff, but is getting used to HTML and XML.
If I want them to create better man pages, I need to help them adapt.

Questions

1. Surely someone has defined an XML schema for man pages, right?

2. Are there translators in both directions?

3. Is there a good XML authoring tool that supports this?

4. Could we get away with shipping man pages in XML only?

Thanks,

-- Ernie P.