Srini

Andre posted a mail on the hackers list about the state of Evolution docs. The doc team here at Novell uses FrameMaker to manage documentation. So the master copy that we use is frame files which can only be exported to XML and no way to import/sync from xml. So any commits that happen for the XML file on the svn needs to be manually synced. At times, some patches are XML fixes which are auto-generated by FrameMaker. In which cases, the commit from Frame files to svn would overwrite them. This is a big issue. One solution that came our is hand editing XML files for documentation. Definitely hand editing the files isn’t going to be easy (it is 8K lines file with almost 1K modification every release). It can be more prone to errors than now. I really want to know how other projects over come this?. Are there any other tools or process other projects use? Or just hand edit XML files? Any better suggestions to me? I would be happy to hear any suggestions/processes that already other projects use.