Re: DocBook/XML summary - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: DocBook/XML summary
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Msg-id 200607161116.43742.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: DocBook/XML summary  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Peter, Josh,

> > - XML editing tools are more widely available.  (Totally unconfirmed
> > assumption; I'm happy with what I have.)
>
> Most XML tools I have ran into also support SGML.

Like which?   I've been completely unable to find any tools more sophisticated
than Emacs+SGML that support SGML adequately to work on the PostgreSQL docs,
while there are literally dozens of XML editors ... including some GUI
editors ... which support DocBook XML.

I have yet to see *any* tool for SGML which does more than validate tags.  The
goal of DocBook XML would be to attract new Doc contributors (like *me*) by
allowing them to use tools which to not require them to spend more time
tagging their text than writing it.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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