Documentation proposal

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 
> I've just read Mike's mail on xfce-i18n. If translators feel that
> they are more comfortable with rst2xml + xml2po + xml2rst rather than
> translating the docs by creating a copy of the original english docs,
> that's fine with me. I'm not (really) a translator so I'm not in the
> position to make this decision - translators should decide here.
> 
> It seems complicated to me though. reST doesn't support looking up
> strings from .po files AFAIK, so we'd have to deal with the 
> 
>   - the original docs
>   - the XML generated with rst2xml.py (because we'll probably need it
>     to generated translated docs)
>   - a bunch of .po files.

So then the question is... what do we get with reST that we don't get 
with docbook?  Why change?

	-b