Re: [boost] Boost 1.36.0 release notice

From: Emil Dotchevski (emil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-15 13:58:19

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>> It's because the underlying documentation is HTML and we don't really
>> try to convert it or it's invalid XHTML and we don't do anything to
>> fix it. Fixing this is a fairly large job, and far down on the
>> priorities.
>
> I'd like to second Daniel on this. Right now we are holding documentation
> generation together with duct tape. It took much behind the scenes work by
> Daniel, me, Eric Niebler, Rene, and others to get the release out. We need
> to smooth all that out before worrying about XHTML.

If we don't care whether the documentation format validates correctly,
we should not advertise it as XHTML-conformant, and we should instruct
documentation writers to not include any conformance claims in their
HTML.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode