From the NannyMUD documentation

LAST CHANGE

2000-12-16

TOPIC

NAME
        format - The format used for the man-pages.


DESCRIPTION
        The manual pages of NannyMUD are stored in XML format. XML is
	a three-letter acronym meaning 'extensible markup language'.
	It draws on experiences form HTML and SGML. The WWW is full of
	materials related to those; look at www.w3c.org and
	www.xml.org for details.

	The XML files are parsed each morning by an external program,
	which builds some databases and also 'R2R' (Ready To Read)
	files. The latter files are parsed as far as they can be
	before presentation, making the presentation job easy for the
	presenting object.

	The XML files are (2000-12-22) stored under /doc/xml. Look at
	some files there to see how it looks; XML uses plain-text
	markup. At the top of the file is a system specification. You
	can look at that on the web to see how the different parts of
	the document are related.


SEE ALSO
        man in xdoc/xmanmod