Re: documentation is now XML

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:48:47AM +0300, Liudmila Mantrova wrote:
> To complete the picture of possible issues with older branches in XML, we
> posted a question in packager lists some time ago and didn't receive any
> objections. Just to keep record of all related questions in one place, here's
> the link:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/
> 06efc906-16f8-0cde-5bee-e3d5abfc00ba%40postgrespro.ru#
> 06efc906-16f8-0cde-5bee-e3d5abfc00ba(at)postgrespro(dot)ru
>
> We totally understand the reluctance to volunteer personal time for manual
> testing of legacy branches - sad as it is that we may miss some benefits of the
> previous efforts. E.g. all styles and transforms have been stabilized for
> version 11, so they could be reused for older branches. As for testing the
> content conversion, our scripts can handle it in a fully automated way by
> comparing the original and the final outputs via the .txt format, so all
> possible differences will be caught.
>
> It's unfortunate that we'll have to deal with different formats in the
> supported branches for several more years, but we at Postgres Professional are
> ready to accept any your decision on this matter for now.

I had not thought of translations, but wouldn't all translations also
need to switch from SGML to XML for back branches? That would be a lot
of work.

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