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To: David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
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Subject: Re: Switching to XML 
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Comments: In-reply-to David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
	message dated "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:08:09 -0500"
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:23:15 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net> writes:
> The benefit I'm talking about is the ability to do multiple indexes
> in one document, which is not possible with DSSSL. In order to do
> this, I would have to run the conversion *every time* I wanted to
> work on a new release of the manual to bookstores.

Yeah, but for purely downstream work like that, what's the objection to
just running the osx conversion?  It seems to take just a few seconds.

I'm still not seeing where we get return on our investment for
converting the master source files from one format to the other.

			regards, tom lane