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Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
<snip>

> Second one is also really important to me. XSLT
> stylesheets and xsltproc are under active development. You can take a
> look here :
>   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935#files
> DSSSL 1.79 has been packaged one 2004-11-03, XSL 1.71.1 has been
> released on 2006-10-19. And don't get me started on tools. I've seen
> recent releases of xsltproc, none of jade, openjade or any of those tools.

<snip>

> 
> I don't want to say we can't do all these with DocBook SGML. Tom fixed
> some stuff on openjade to make it process quickier. Great. We can also
> customize DSSSL stylesheets. We can, we can... yes we can do a lot of
> things with SGML and DSSSL. When I say "We", I should say "You" because
> I don't want to get this burden. I mean, fixing a tool is great... but I
> really prefer to see Tom working on PostgreSQL new astounding features
> than on an old unmaintained and unused tool. 

I think this is a good point. I've heard a saying in #postgresql on
IRC: "First rate database, second rate tools..." I think that is a
shame.

David
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