From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: PostgreSQL @ Sun
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DocBook/XML summary
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:16:43 -0700
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	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Peter, Josh,

> > - XML editing tools are more widely available.  (Totally unconfirmed
> > assumption; I'm happy with what I have.)
>
> Most XML tools I have ran into also support SGML.

Like which?   I've been completely unable to find any tools more sophisticated 
than Emacs+SGML that support SGML adequately to work on the PostgreSQL docs, 
while there are literally dozens of XML editors ... including some GUI 
editors ... which support DocBook XML.

I have yet to see *any* tool for SGML which does more than validate tags.  The 
goal of DocBook XML would be to attract new Doc contributors (like *me*) by 
allowing them to use tools which to not require them to spend more time 
tagging their text than writing it.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco