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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:21:34 -0800
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On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 21:15 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > As I said then, this is absolutely untrue.  OpenOffice.org, for
> > example, works with DocBook XML but not SGML.
> 
> What does "works" mean?

You can create, edit, convert, save, and open docbook xml in
OpenOfice.org.

> 
> > There are also a 
> > plethora of XML editing and publishing tools which can been used for
> > Docbook XML which are not available for SGML.
> 
> That has nothing to do with processing.

You are correct but XML does give us more modern and efficient toolsets
for processing. XSLT, FOP + Xerces for example.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
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