Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus 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

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:27 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > Check the facts. The latest stable FOP release was more than three > > > years ago. > > > > Actually it was about 8 months ago. 0.92 Beta. > > That is not a stable release. And the fact that the latest beta

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Check the facts. The latest stable FOP release was more than three > > years ago. > > Actually it was about 8 months ago. 0.92 Beta. That is not a stable release. And the fact that the latest beta is 8 months old doesn't impress me either. -- Peter Eisentraut http://

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 09:10 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > > A summary : > > * to build HTML manual with XSLT : > >make postgres.xml > >make xslthtml > > Just the last command should be enough. > > > * to build PDF manual with XSLT : > >make postgres.xml

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 08:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > 5. The format objects development (FOP) seems to be better maintained > > then the dblatex/db2latex/pdflatex stuff. > > Check the facts. The latest stable FOP release was more than three > years ago. Actual

Re: [DOCS] Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus wrote: > Anyway, from the sound of it whether or not there are better > authoring tools for XML than SGML is "undetermined pending further > investigation." I'll be the first to welcome better editing options, but so far I have only heard them being theorized about. -- Peter Eisentr

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Peter Eisentraut a ecrit le 12/12/2006 09:10: Guillaume Lelarge wrote: fop.sh postgres-A4.fo postgres-A4.pdf I think my fop install is broken because I'm not able to build the PDF file... I have been using FOP on and off for many years and I've never seen it produce any real document long

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > A summary : > * to build HTML manual with XSLT : >make postgres.xml >make xslthtml Just the last command should be enough. > * to build PDF manual with XSLT : >make postgres.xml >make postgres-A4.fo Same here. >fop.sh postgres-A4.fo postgres-A4.p

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
David Blewett wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, but I thought XSLT stylesheets can only be used > on XML files? FWIW, you can use XSLT stylesheets on SGML as well, but we don't do that. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Of course your changes that you make from release to release for > volumes won't be permanent Well, of course he'd make his changes in the sources, not in the intermediate XML file. Or he is talking about a kind of changes which I cannot fathom at the moment. -- Peter