From: | David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net> |
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To: | Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Switching to XML |
Date: | 2006-12-10 14:40:54 |
Message-ID: | 457C1C76.3080704@dawninglight.net |
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Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
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> Second one is also really important to me. XSLT
> stylesheets and xsltproc are under active development. You can take a
> look here :
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935#files
> DSSSL 1.79 has been packaged one 2004-11-03, XSL 1.71.1 has been
> released on 2006-10-19. And don't get me started on tools. I've seen
> recent releases of xsltproc, none of jade, openjade or any of those tools.
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>
> I don't want to say we can't do all these with DocBook SGML. Tom fixed
> some stuff on openjade to make it process quickier. Great. We can also
> customize DSSSL stylesheets. We can, we can... yes we can do a lot of
> things with SGML and DSSSL. When I say "We", I should say "You" because
> I don't want to get this burden. I mean, fixing a tool is great... but I
> really prefer to see Tom working on PostgreSQL new astounding features
> than on an old unmaintained and unused tool.
I think this is a good point. I've heard a saying in #postgresql on
IRC: "First rate database, second rate tools..." I think that is a
shame.
David
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