Re: Switching to XML - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: Switching to XML
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Msg-id 457B76EB.4010701@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: Switching to XML  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>
> 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.
>

+1

With regards to the current setup discouraging contribution - I've done
one (or maybe two) doc submissions and ISTR that it was not very
difficult - even as a complete SGML newbie - to get up and running, make
my changes and build the (HTML) docs.

Cheers

Mark

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