[drupal-docs] XHTML in our documentation - Textile, Markdown, ...

[Gabor Hojtsy]

>> I am also -1 on using any markup language other than valid XHTML.  
>> Drupal also has modules to check for input validity, and can refuse  
>> non-compliant XHTML code. I am using the bbcode firefox extension to  
>> help me author bug reports and comments on drupal.org. It does 
>> support  HTML and XHTML editing options too:
> 
> which modules validate for XHTML?

http://drupal.org/project/htmltidy

>> https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php? 
>> id=128&vid=196&category=Miscellaneous
> 
> OK, that suits your needs but do you really think it is a good solution  
> to have everyone using FireFox plugins instead of just offerring  
> bbcode.module on the site?

No, noone needs to install Firefox or a Firefox plugin to author 
documentation. And noone needs to learn a markup language, apart from 
XHTML, which one should now using Drupal anyway. OK I understand that 
there going to be (are?) doc people, who don't know XHTML and will not 
learn that anyway, since they are approaching Drupal for a different 
perspecitve, but they can just write down their thoughts with simple 
paragraphs, and then someone can format it for them...

Goba