Re: Switching to XML

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: 2006-12-09 10:59:19
Message-ID: 200612091159.20003.peter_e@gmx.net
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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/

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