Re: Switching to XML - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Switching to XML
Date
Msg-id 28993.1165730566@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Switching to XML  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> In addition to the long-standing problem that there is no way to edit
> the SGML docs with any known GUI tool,

The point not in evidence is that there exists a GUI tool we'd accept
for editing XML-format docs.  Can you point to some that don't mess up
XML source code to the point of being unreadable?

> ... That Tom found
> a need to fork a document tool, i.e. take ownership of a whole large
> piece of software, that being what forking means, is a neon sign that
> means, "we're stuck with broken tools."

Um, I spend all day every day on making sometimes-comparable
improvements in Postgres.  Will you abandon Postgres as soon as
someone points out a(nother) serious performance bug in it?

As for "fork", I have no intention of forking anything --- that patch
is already submitted upstream.

            regards, tom lane

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