Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA02B9FA274 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:59:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38684-08 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:59:19 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 094559F9FE1 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:59:22 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Dec 2006 10:59:21 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-008-186.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.8.186] by mail.gmx.net (mp044) with SMTP; 09 Dec 2006 11:59:21 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: "Joshua D. Drake" Subject: Re: Switching to XML Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 11:59:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Scott Marlowe , Josh Berkus , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett References: <4579720E.4000707@dawninglight.net> <1165614840.3243.81.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> <1165615383.24745.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1165615383.24745.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612091159.20003.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archive-Number: 200612/53 X-Sequence-Number: 3976 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > 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. I feel like I'm talkling to a wall here, but I'm going to say this one last time: Any processing toolchain that you can use with DocBook XML you can use with DocBook SGML and vice versa. If you know of a way to create a PDF off DocBook XML in 30 minutes, please tell us. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/