Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C5E9FA162 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:14:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06969-09 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:14:23 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C259FA37A for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:14:23 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id kBDHEI800289; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:14:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200612131714.kBDHEI800289@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML In-Reply-To: <200612121626.42229.peter_e@gmx.net> To: Peter Eisentraut Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:14:18 -0500 (EST) CC: josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, "Joshua D. Drake" , David Fetter , Guillaume Lelarge X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL123] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/153 X-Sequence-Number: 4076 I have read the two long XML threads, and see these issues for converting to XML: o authoring, in two parts: o WYSIWYG - this seems unattainable because such editors are going to modify the surrounding XML, which will affect hand-edited changes o tag assistance - this seems possible, e.g. tag completion, drop down list of tags available for this section o output generation - the XML toolchain is more widely used, but Tom has fixed the performance issue we have had for years. The fact that the tool maintainers were unable to fix it themselves reflects badly on their maintenance of this toolchain. o translation - does XML have better tools to assist in translating our manuals, and is this better than outputting XML via our makefile? It would be nice to use htmltidy to clean up the xml before each release, but I wonder whether it understand the tags well enough to provide better formatting than we do now manually. Tom, I think we need that SGML patch placed on our ftp site and a reference to it made in our documentation. I can do it of you want. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +