Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62F49FA37A for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:11:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82485-05 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:11:41 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DE39FA344 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:11:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBAHBThG005585; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:11:29 -0500 (EST) To: "Joshua D. Drake" cc: Peter Eisentraut , David Fetter , Guillaume Lelarge , Josh Berkus , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett Subject: Re: Switching to XML In-reply-to: <1165769484.13210.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <4579720E.4000707@dawninglight.net> <200612101008.10366.peter_e@gmx.net> <1165767023.13210.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200612101737.10958.peter_e@gmx.net> <1165769484.13210.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> Comments: In-reply-to "Joshua D. Drake" message dated "Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:51:24 -0800" Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:11:29 -0500 Message-ID: <5584.1165770689@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Archive-Number: 200612/91 X-Sequence-Number: 4014 "Joshua D. Drake" writes: > Until you can come up with a reason why we *shouldn't* move to XML. I > believe this issue is settled. How about "the people who are actually doing the work today don't want to change to XML"? I'm not very excited by hopes that all sorts of documentation manpower will suddenly materialize if only the docs were in XML not SGML. *That* is the part of this argument for which no evidence has been produced. Where are the people who know the code well enough to document it but refuse to work on the docs because they're not XML? (And no, Peter is not the only one objecting.) regards, tom lane