Re: Switching to XML

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 22:49 -0300, Mario wrote:
> On 08/12/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > There is a long standing support within the community to move to XML
> > including:
> >
> > Josh Berkus
> > Josh Drake
> > Robert Treat
> > Andrew Dunslane
> > David Blewett
> > David Fetter
> > Devrim Gunduz
> > Darcy Buskermolen
> >
> > And that is just from #postgresql
> >
>
> And now in Chile, I wrote an app to translate postgres documentation
> (l10n.postgresql.cl). I took SGML sources, transform to XML and to POT
> files
>
> The results are good! but is it not the best. To move from SGML to
> XML is a hard work.

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

Mario 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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> >
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