[Zope-dev] Structured Text Plus

[Ian Clatworthy]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Clatworthy" <ianc@mincom.com>
> To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:52 PM
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Structured Text Plus
> 
> > I've put together the design for an extended version of
> > Structured Text which I'd like some feedback on before
> > I go too much further. At this stage, the design is
> > explained via a series of user-level How-To's, e.g.
> > Writing Documents Using Structured Text Plus.
> 
> Could you please summarize the benefits compared to
> STXNG ?

As I understand things from reading the STXNG Wiki stuff,
it's largely an internal rewrite which adds 2 or 3 new
features, namely images and tables. STXPlus is a lot more
ambitious than that wrt new features, i.e.

* there are 3 "levels of features" above'Classic', namely
  Topic, Document and Book
* each level adds half a dozen new features.

> You are targeting also the single-source approach
> for documents with STPlus - what are the benefits
> compared to working solution like Docbook ?

Upwards compatibility with STX, i.e. something more
readable than XML.

Ian C.


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