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Re: Switching to XML

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
Date: 2006-12-09T10:59:19Z
Lists: pgsql-docs 
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Further, here is a real world problem that our toolset creates...
>
> I take 5 minutes, change the stylesheet for SGML. I want to see what
> my changes will look like... 3 days later, I will know.
>
> That is stupid. If it was XML, it would be 30 minutes. That is a
> workable timeframe.

I feel like I'm talkling to a wall here, but I'm going to say this one 
last time:

Any processing toolchain that you can use with DocBook XML you can use 
with DocBook SGML and vice versa.

If you know of a way to create a PDF off DocBook XML in 30 minutes, 
please tell us.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/