Re: Docbook 5.x

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > actually we use DocBook V4.2 for the PostgreSQL manuals. I suggest an
> > upgrade to DocBook 5.x. This sounds simple, but it will be a long process
> > with many sub-tasks.
>
> Yes, agreed. The killer objection placed last time was that it took
> something like 10x longer to generate the HTML using the XML-based
> toolchain than the SGML-based ones. If this is not fixed, let's forget
> about this whole thing until it is. So, would you time the process
> using both toolchains and report back?
>

As it stated in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/562E061B.1090809@postgrespro.ru
the xml performance may be greatly improved. Alexander, what is current
state of art of your patch ? How slow is xml in compare to sgml ?

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