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docs: python bindings HOWTO - DITA XML version
* Due to the org-babel bug which breaks Python source code examples beyond the most simple snippets, ported the HOWTO to a source format which I *know* for sure won't break it. * Details of the org-mode bug is in https://dev.gnupg.org/T3977 * DITA project uses DITA-OT 2.x (2.4 or 2.5, IIRC) with support for DITA 1.3. * source files were written with oXygenXML Editor 20.0, hence the oXygenXML project file in the directory; however only the .ditamap and .dita files are required to generate any output with the DITA-OT. Signed-off-by: Ben McGinnes <[email protected]>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE dita PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Composite//EN" "ditabase.dtd">
+<dita>
+ <topic id="topic_nb3_hrx_5db">
+ <title>Documentation Source Files</title>
+ <body>
+ <p>Unlike all other documentation in the GnuPG Project, including the initial version of
+ this HOWTO, this version was <i>not</i> written in Emacs Org-Mode. Nor was it written in
+ LaTeX, Texinfo or even directly in HTML. Instead it was written using the Darwin Information
+ Typing Architecture (DITA) XML.</p>
+ <p>This was done for two main reasons:</p>
+ <p>
+ <ol id="ol_k3b_wrx_5db">
+ <li>A bug in either Org-Mode or Babel prevented the more complex examples included in the
+ HOWTO from displaying correctly.</li>
+ <li>To demonstrate some of the advantages of DITA XML over existing documentation
+ productionsoftware used in the project (particularly Texinfo and LaTeX).</li>
+ </ol>
+ </p>
+ <p>The XML format definitely supports displaying all the more complex Python code correctly,
+ as well as being designed to produce standards compliant print and HTML output. Whereas
+ currently the existing tools utilised by the GnuPG Project can't display the example code in
+ a way which would actually pass the project's own git commit ruleset.</p>
+ <p> </p>
+ </body>
+ </topic>
+</dita>