After significant amount of time spent writing and fixing LibreOffice Help pages
(XHP), I came to conclusion that the LibreOffice Help XML (XHP) is a powerful markup
but a bit too hard to master for newcomers and easy to have errors and
mistakes slipped in files. Some of its complexity are not absolutely
required so I wrote a wiki page suggesting the implementation of XHP
extensions, aiming to make life simpler for adding and reading XHP
contents textually (markup).
Please note that in any case the current markup is affected, so it will
preserve the legacy contents as well as the current translations.
For example, the new markup for 'tip' paragraph should be
<tip id="123456" localize="true" xml-lang="en-US"></tip>
So it can replace
<paragraph id="123456" localize="true" role="tip" xml-lang="en-US"></paragraph>
Yes, it is a trivial change but I hope it will make reading easier for all.
Handling of the XHP extensions will be in the XSLT transformation and it
will be patched accordingly, as well as the DTD, wiki documentation on
XHP, and string extractors for Pootle.
The wiki page is
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Proposed_Extensions_for_XHP
And comments are welcome, do's and dont's, thumbs up or thumbs down.
Happy help writing.
