Re: Switching to XML

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
Date: 2006-12-10T06:02:46Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> In addition to the long-standing problem that there is no way to edit
> the SGML docs with any known GUI tool,

The point not in evidence is that there exists a GUI tool we'd accept
for editing XML-format docs.  Can you point to some that don't mess up
XML source code to the point of being unreadable?

> ... That Tom found
> a need to fork a document tool, i.e. take ownership of a whole large
> piece of software, that being what forking means, is a neon sign that
> means, "we're stuck with broken tools."

Um, I spend all day every day on making sometimes-comparable
improvements in Postgres.  Will you abandon Postgres as soon as
someone points out a(nother) serious performance bug in it?

As for "fork", I have no intention of forking anything --- that patch
is already submitted upstream.

			regards, tom lane