Re: Switching to XML

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> 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.  A simple look at this page:
> > http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookAuthoringTools
> > .... shows that there are more than twice as many authoring tools which
> > support only XML as support SGML -- and that most of the tools which
> > support SGML are out-of-maintenance.
>
> This is confusing authoring tools (ie, stuff for more or less WYSIWYG
> editing of the document source) with output generation tools.
>
> 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.

And diffs would be either very large or useless.

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