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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:07:51 -0800
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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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