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To: Scott Marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
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Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:03:03 -0800
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> > OO treats Docbook like a normal document. You will however loose styles
> > (like bold, italic). It does support tables, it understands
> > transformation from things like sect1 (from OO heading1) etc...
> >
> > The style loss is to be expected because Docbook doesn't contain
> > representation data. That belongs to a style sheet.
>
> and let me add that I'm not really anti-sgml docbook, I just couldn't
> find a "starter set" for editing the stuff. It seemed like everything I
> found on docbook xml was written for people who already use docbook xml.
Nor am I anti-sgml. I am however anti-noncontribution, if people are not
contributing because of our sgml but would if it is xml, that is a no
brainer.
Further, here is a real world problem that our toolset creates...
I take 5 minutes, change the stylesheet for SGML. I want to see what my
changes will look like... 3 days later, I will know.
That is stupid. If it was XML, it would be 30 minutes. That is a
workable timeframe.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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