Re: --xml and different node and sectionning structures

[Karl Berry]

     another
    easy way out would be to have nodes as stand-alone elements, but not
    first childs of sections, they should just be output where they appear.
    Karl, does it look good to you?

Yes, sounds fine.  Nodes and sections are theoretically independent.

    Karl is unhappy with the @macro stuff, too (and maybe with conditionals?)

I'm unhappy with lots of things about Texinfo design (including the
above), but there are an awful lot of manuals written using it.  We
can't just arbitrarily declare feature X to be dead, no matter how ugly
it is.

For example, we could make yet another reference command, but it's not
an easy thing to do.  We already have @ref, which seems about as minimal
as it can be.  Anything related only to page numbers can't be used in
Info output.

The node name restrictions are perhaps the worst user-level problem
IMHO, but the Info readers have to be fixed, and I just don't have the
time or energy to make that happen.

karl