| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: DocBook/XML summary |
| Date: | 2006-07-16 18:56:59 |
| Message-ID: | 44BA8BFB.8070306@commandprompt.com |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Peter, Josh,
>
>>> - XML editing tools are more widely available. (Totally unconfirmed
>>> assumption; I'm happy with what I have.)
>> Most XML tools I have ran into also support SGML.
>
> Like which? I've been completely unable to find any tools more sophisticated
> than Emacs+SGML that support SGML adequately to work on the PostgreSQL docs,
> while there are literally dozens of XML editors ... including some GUI
> editors ... which support DocBook XML.
Bluefish, Kate, Wordperfect. Wordperfect is likely the best Docbook
editor I have ever seen.
>
> I have yet to see *any* tool for SGML which does more than validate tags. The
> goal of DocBook XML would be to attract new Doc contributors (like *me*) by
> allowing them to use tools which to not require them to spend more time
> tagging their text than writing it.
I admit that I might have a different need then most people, as I am way
more familiar with docbook then I ever cared to be. I can just use Joe ;)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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