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From: Mark Kirkwood <[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: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:54:35 +1300
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Tom Lane wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

+1

With regards to the current setup discouraging contribution - I've done 
one (or maybe two) doc submissions and ISTR that it was not very 
difficult - even as a complete SGML newbie - to get up and running, make 
my changes and build the (HTML) docs.

Cheers

Mark

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