Re: Switching to XML

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:36 -0500, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter,
>
> >  First of all, moving to DocBook XML will not do anything in the way of
> >  improving our output processing abilities.  Any tool that you can use
> >  on DocBook SGML can also be used on DocBook XML and vice versa.
> >
>
> As I said then, this is absolutely untrue.

You are correct Josh. I am not sure why Peter ignores this simple fact.

>  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.

Yep.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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> --Josh Berkus
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