On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:36 -0500, Josh Berkus wrote: > 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.
You are correct Josh. I am not sure why Peter ignores this simple fact. > 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. Yep. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > --Josh Berkus > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
