Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800599FA162 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:07:44 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92411-05 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:07:44 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5469F9EED for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:07:43 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBBK7brp015401; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:07:37 -0500 (EST) To: "Joshua D. Drake" cc: Peter Eisentraut , David Fetter , Guillaume Lelarge , Josh Berkus , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Switching to XML In-reply-to: <1165867152.19970.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <4579720E.4000707@dawninglight.net> <200612101825.17409.peter_e@gmx.net> <1165773088.13210.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200612101907.13636.peter_e@gmx.net> <1165862891.19970.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <15275.1165866833@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1165867152.19970.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> Comments: In-reply-to "Joshua D. Drake" message dated "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:59:12 -0800" Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:07:37 -0500 Message-ID: <15400.1165867657@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Archive-Number: 200612/128 X-Sequence-Number: 4051 "Joshua D. Drake" writes: > Secondly the make postgres.xml would be a one time thing. Agreed, the cost of conversion is one-time ... but it's not small. Aside from getting the files themselves converted, there's the effort for people to find, install, and learn suitable tools, not to mention come up to speed on the differences between xml and sgml. (I assume there are some significant ones, else why are we having this discussion?) The real problem here is that you've still failed to establish any sizable benefit from converting. As best I can tell at the moment, the acceptable options for editing XML will be about the same as they are for SGML: emacs, and not a lot else. I don't really see why I should have to start spelling out every closing tag for a no-op like that. regards, tom lane