From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
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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