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From: Oisin Glynn <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:10:37 -0500
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> OO treats Docbook like a normal document. You will however loose styles
>>> (like bold, italic). It does support tables, it understands
>>> transformation from things like sect1 (from OO heading1) etc...
>>>
>>> The style loss is to be expected because Docbook doesn't contain
>>> representation data. That belongs to a style sheet.
>>>       
>> and let me add that I'm not really anti-sgml docbook, I just couldn't
>> find a "starter set" for editing the stuff.  It seemed like everything I
>> found on docbook xml was written for people who already use docbook xml.
>>     
>
> Nor am I anti-sgml. I am however anti-noncontribution, if people are not
> contributing because of our sgml but would if it is xml, that is a no
> brainer.
>
> Further, here is a real world problem that our toolset creates...
>
> I take 5 minutes, change the stylesheet for SGML. I want to see what my
> changes will look like... 3 days later, I will know.
>
> That is stupid. If it was XML, it would be 30 minutes. That is a
> workable timeframe.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>   
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>>     
I am not an expert in any of this but would say the one time I had 
something I would have added to a doc (windows Vs *nix differences in 
copy command) I was in knots with the whole SGML thing and figured it 
would be quicker to just post an answer on the mailing list so it would 
be immortalized, it should not be so hard to contribute. I feel there 
are people who maybe cannot code or add in that way  but could add to 
docs if it was easier. I had an easier time setting up a pgAdmin build 
than figuring out the SGML stuff.

Oisin


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