Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML
Date: 2006-12-11 18:40:34
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On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:34 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >> 1) a) is there some way we can try various tools and check output?
>
> > OpenOffice.Org, WordPerfect, Kword, Abiword. The first two (last I
> > checked) were the only mature software supporting Docbook output.
>
> I tried opening postgres.xml in OpenOffice 2.0, and it just showed me
> the raw text and markup --- no indication that it understood xml at all.
> Is there some special incantation needed?

I found that I had to remove the <? xml declartion and only have the
docbook dtd declartion.

Warning, it is ugly :) but it does indeed work.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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