Re: Introducing RASH 0.4

Hi Nicholas,

> I have had a quick look at the documentation but did not find an
> answer to the following question:
> 
> How do you relate or position RASH with respect to BocBook ?

I think you are referring to DocBook, right? :-)

Generally speaking, DocBook is a quite impressive and large XML-based markup language for writing textual documents. It includes several tags in its specification that basically allow one to write a quite large set of different kinds of documents, from research articles to books. It is a stand-alone markup language and, thus, it is not immediately viewable and browsable through a Web browser, even if several tools have been developed in order to address such issue (e.g., there exist several XSLT files for managing this).

In contrast, RASH has a narrower scope, since it has been developed for creating research papers only, and it is not a “pure” new markup language. Rather, it restricts the use of existing HTML5 elements in a way that “obliges” you to write simple markup rather than complex hierarchies of nested elements. Its intrinsic simplicity has been of great advantage for developing all the tools (https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/tree/master/tools) included in its Framework. In addition, since it’s HTML (+ Javascript), RASH documents are ready for being viewed and navigated through any browser without further pre-processing.

Have a nice day :-)

S.




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