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[libstdc++] Add XHTML DOCTYPE. (was Re: web page status)
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jonathan Wakely <cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:13:42 -0400
- Subject: [libstdc++] Add XHTML DOCTYPE. (was Re: web page status)
- References: <20021003111319.50c50af1.bkoz@redhat.com> <20021003192144.A26040@disaster.jaj.com> <20021004102637.GA95187@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20021004093057.2860218a.bkoz@redhat.com>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:30:57AM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > > Jonathan Wakely posted a patch to add the DOCTYPE headers to the files,
> >
> > That'll be this one:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2002-09/msg00149.html
> >
> > > so that they can be viewed offline. I never checked in the patch due to
> > > the skydiving accident. My only question is what will the web server's
> > > preprocessor do when it sees a DOCTYPE already there? I'll try to
> > > investigate that, but don't hold your breath.
[...]
> OK. Thanks for the low-down. Can this patch get checked in ASAP then?
Done on the trunk. I hope to do some more doc changes before the next 3.2.x
release, and then this will be included in the docs merge to the branch.
> > In the long-term, if the pages should match to the main GCC wwwdocs and be
> > pre-processed to add the headers, then maybe there should be a way to add
> > similar headers to the sources and generate docs for offline viewing?
> > (If there isn't a way to do this I might have just given myself something
> > else to do. Oops)
>
> There should always be a way for people to view docs off-line. That
> capability is of major importance.
>
> It sounds to me that the best solution is to just add the headers to the
> sources and don't do any on-the-fly processing.
I think it should work. We'll find out. :-)
Phil
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