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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
