Re: Switching to XML

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 09:21 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 21:58 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>> You can create, edit, convert, save, and open docbook xml in
> >>> OpenOfice.org.
> >> Sure, there are more editing options with DocBook XML.  No one disputes
> >> that.  But the question at hand was about processing the DocBook.
> >
> > Yes which is generated from our use of SGML which is the core of this
> > problem and the core of the question as a whole.
> >
> > SGML is making working with the documentation *harder*.
> >
>
> +1

I believe this point is being overlooked is people's willingness to code
a solution ;).

Guillaume could you please tell us *why* you ported the SGML to XML
before doing your translation and processing? Perhaps that will carry
more weight to this discussion then my hand waving.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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