[Cuis-dev] Erudite Help file system for Cuis -> Can it read Docbook files? PetitParser version?

[H. Hirzel]

On 11/03/2025 3:28 pm, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:

> Btw, last time I looked at DocBook, I didn't find it extensible the 
> way I would have liked.
>
> In my opinion, we should have an XML standard that is easily 
> extensible, and that completely separates semantic elements from its 
> rendering.
>
> That would make it possible to manipulate documents and extract 
> information from them in a powerful way, without losing information. 
> And also render the documents for different mediums in a correct way.
>
> I don't understand why there's not something like that. I don't think 
> DocBook is that, but it should have been.
Could you please elaborate on this? For my purposes it seems to be good 
enough. Or do you specifically mean the handling of the embedded code 
expressions?
>
> That's what XMLEruditeBook is about.

I have seen the start of that class in the code. It uses HTML code. This 
is good if applied in a structured way. It is a huge standard an may be 
adapted in may ways to suit a specific purpose. Do you have plans to 
contine to work on this?