Re: DocBook V4.2

Can we still do <tag>text</> or do we need to spell out the full close
tag with </tag>?

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Guillaume LELARGE wrote:
> Le Lundi 16 Juin 2003 14:51, vous avez ?crit :
> > We have planned several times to move to a new DocBook version, but always
> > postponed it.  I'd like to get it done this time.
> >
> > We are now beginning to run into trouble with the established toolchain
> > (particularly for print output), and there isn't much new development
> > happening, so I'd like to start trying out XML-based toolchains.  To do
> > that, we need to move to a DocBook version that is available as both SGML
> > (processed by OpenJade) and XML, which is the case for 4.x.  We can
> > convert SGML to XML automatically, so there are no syntax implications.
> >
> > Comments?
> I think it would be great news. XML Docbook is much easier to "read" and
> understand. For example, it is of great value to a translator. I've
> translated many howtos from the LDP and some guides. SGML Docbook is a good
> wey to format a document, but XML is a much better one. And it allows anyone
> to apply really simple xslt stylesheets with xsltproc (or saboltron or
> something else). Doing it with DSSSL stylesheets is really hard.
>
> I'm in the process to create a french translation team and would be really
> interested if all documents could be move to an XML docbook format. And I
> could help you, if you need, to speed up the move.
>
> By the way, if any french people here are interested in translating postgresql
> documents (manuals, faqs and techdocs) in french, please get in touch with
> me.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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