Gavin Sinclair wrote:
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 12:21:10 AM, jbritt wrote:
Yes, and with that coming up I'm pretty sure I'll never touch RImport
code again.
LOL! Will there be an official announcement? :)
Well, I'll put something up on the RubyForge site, maybe a 'Closed for
Vacation' sign ...
I may then look at doing Rexport. :)
I gather from Dave's comments that, whereas ri currently uses Ruby's
Marshall format to store data files, the next version will use YAML. A
step in the right direction, but, from my understanding of YAML, it is
designed to be data-centric, not document-centric, with corresponding
limitations.
I'd like to have a way to get semantically rich markup out of RDoc
comments (the current XML output is full of presentation markup),
suitable for a variety of document processing tasks (e.g. transclusion,
data extraction via XPath/XQuery, dependency hierarchies), and I don't
think the next version of RDoc/ri will address this.
But time will tell.
James
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