RFR: JDK-8298405: Support Markdown in the standard doclet [v2]

Wed Feb 8 00:00:52 UTC 2023

On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 11:55:15 GMT, Wim Deblauwe <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Is the work here done in a way that asciidoc ( https://docs.asciidoctor.org/ ) support is also possible?

Yes, and no. But mostly no.

Yes, in the sense that there are aspects of this work that might allow [asciidoclet](https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoclet/latest/) to be enhanced.

No, in the sense that the proposal does not include the Standard Doclet supporting pluggable backends for different markup languages, and I don't think we want to go there, at least to begin with. I think it is more interesting to focus on getting broader support across the ecosystem for a limited set of markup languages than an open-ended set.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11701