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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:44:48 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <[email protected]> writes:
> > As I said then, this is absolutely untrue.  OpenOffice.org, for example, 
> > works with DocBook XML but not SGML.  There are also a plethora of XML 
> > editing and publishing tools which can been used for Docbook XML which 
> > are not available for SGML.  A simple look at this page: 
> > http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookAuthoringTools
> > .... shows that there are more than twice as many authoring tools which 
> > support only XML as support SGML -- and that most of the tools which 
> > support SGML are out-of-maintenance.
> 
> This is confusing authoring tools (ie, stuff for more or less WYSIWYG
> editing of the document source) with output generation tools.
> 
> As for authoring tools, show me one that produces SGML or XML that's
> reasonably readable, and I might worry about allowing people to use it.
> Most of the ones I've seen would render the doc sources unreadable for
> anyone not using an authoring tool (possibly even the very same
> authoring tool).  We are not going to move in that direction
> because it would piss off the people who do the bulk of the work now.

And diffs would be either very large or useless.

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