Re: Docbook 5.x

On 05/03/2016 12:34 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jürgen Purtz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> actually we use DocBook V4.2 for the PostgreSQL manuals. I suggest an
>> upgrade to DocBook 5.x. This sounds simple, but it will be a long process
>> with many sub-tasks.
>
> Yes, agreed.  The killer objection placed last time was that it took
> something like 10x longer to generate the HTML using the XML-based
> toolchain than the SGML-based ones.  If this is not fixed, let's forget
> about this whole thing until it is.  So, would you time the process
> using both toolchains and report back?

IIRC:

TGL submitted a patch for the openjade bug way back when that caused
that issue.

TGL, do you know what happened there?

Sincerely,

JD




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