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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:36:35 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Peter,

>  First of all, moving to DocBook XML will not do anything in the way of 
>  improving our output processing abilities.  Any tool that you can use 
>  on DocBook SGML can also be used on DocBook XML and vice versa.
> 

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.

--Josh Berkus

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