Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9759F9C35 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:38:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42478-09 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:38:21 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from outmail136080.authsmtp.com (outmail136080.authsmtp.com [62.13.136.80]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB989F9CB8 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:38:22 -0400 (AST) Received: from outmail128177.authsmtp.com (outmail128177.authsmtp.com [62.13.128.177]) by punt2.authsmtp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Kp) with ESMTP id kB8IcDo2001903; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:38:13 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.104] (dsl017-069-202.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [69.17.69.202]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.authsmtp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Kp) with ESMTP id kB8IbxWg099841; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:38:06 GMT Message-ID: <4579B0B3.10507@agliodbs.com> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:36:35 -0500 From: Josh Berkus User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Eisentraut CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett Subject: Re: Switching to XML References: <4579720E.4000707@dawninglight.net> <200612081902.11483.peter_e@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200612081902.11483.peter_e@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Quench: 41218690-86eb-11db-b4dc-001185d377ca X-AuthRoute: OCdyZgscClZXSx8a IioLCC5HRQ8+YBZL BAkGMA9GIUINWEQK c1ACfh1/PVZbHwkB BXYKU15XWFdwWS1z YhRQahtba1RMXwd1 Uk1LR01SWl4aCWVT TnlJUhB7fwFHNn9z ZEcsWnFZXUx8fEZg SkgBR3AHZDMydTIb BBNFdwNVcQtPKhxC bQMuGhFYa3VsEgUT JDp7BC8wIT5fKSJa Ch0KZWI3ZS5y X-Authentic-SMTP: 61633136333939.squirrel.dmpriest.net.uk:315/Kp X-Report-SPAM: If SPAM / abuse - report it at: http://www.authsmtp.com/abuse X-Virus-Status: No virus detected - but ensure you scan with your own anti-virus system! X-Archive-Number: 200612/37 X-Sequence-Number: 3960 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