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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:08:09 +0100
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David Fetter wrote:
> Peter, if you have a working example of a GUI tool that can be used
> with the SGML source in its current form, the burden of proof is on
> you to demonstrate it.  Another flat assertion from you of some kind
> of mathematical equivalence between SGML and XML will *not* do the
> trick.

Well, most of you are obviously led into twisting every single thread on 
this mailing list related to some sort of tool trouble into a thread 
that SGML is completely unusable for unrelated reasons such as that 
there are no editing tools or that it takes too long to build.  I have 
no interest in these sorts of uninformed discussions.

The question here was by David Blewett about creating multiple indexes.  
Has anyone bothered to look into that?  My experimentation, by the way, 
shows that it works exactly as described in the cited document.

> It'll be nice to have the document building cycle shorter, but the
> point here is that we need to enter the 21st century.  That Tom found
> a need to fork a document tool, i.e. take ownership of a whole large
> piece of software, that being what forking means, is a neon sign that
> means, "we're stuck with broken tools."

And which nonbroken tools for creating print output do you have up your 
sleeve in the new XML world?  And what is so wonderous about these 
tools that we can't use them today?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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