From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:07:51 -0800
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References: <4579720E.4000707@dawninglight.net>
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On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:36 -0500, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter,
>
> > First of all, moving to DocBook XML will not do anything in the way of
> > improving our output processing abilities. Any tool that you can use
> > on DocBook SGML can also be used on DocBook XML and vice versa.
> >
>
> As I said then, this is absolutely untrue.
You are correct Josh. I am not sure why Peter ignores this simple fact.
> OpenOffice.org, for example,
> works with DocBook XML but not SGML. There are also a plethora of XML
> editing and publishing tools which can been used for Docbook XML which
> are not available for SGML. A simple look at this page:
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookAuthoringTools
> .... shows that there are more than twice as many authoring tools which
> support only XML as support SGML -- and that most of the tools which
> support SGML are out-of-maintenance.
Yep.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> --Josh Berkus
>
>
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