Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <[email protected]> writes: > > 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. > > This is confusing authoring tools (ie, stuff for more or less WYSIWYG > editing of the document source) with output generation tools. > > 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.
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