Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:34:11 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should i be using sgml or xml? Message-ID: <20011220093411.A48837@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011220032529.F27392@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:25:29AM -0800 References: <20011219192738.E95146@elvis.mu.org> <20011220032529.F27392@windriver.com>
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* Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> [011220 05:25] wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:27:38PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Hey, I noticed that people are going all XML for docbook, should
> > I look at that or stick with sgml?
>
> That depends on your requirements, there isn't going to be a very
> big difference if you are just looking at this from an authoring
> perspective. If you're evaluating toolchains for different
> publication requirements then the details could be very important
> indeed. The DSSSL toolchain still has better support than the XML-FO
> backend used by XSLT processors. DSSSL can be used with either SGML
> or XML DocBook documents though. If you are going to be using the
> FreeBSD Doc Project infrastructure, with its enormous advantage of
> "just working" out of the box, then I would suggest sticking with
> SGML.
Well I am using FreeBSD docbook, however I wasn't sure what path
you guys were following. I was also hoping for some form of an
indent(1) tool, I assumed xml would work better than sgml for that.
Is there an indent(1) for sgml?
You guys planning on doing xml any time soon? (not that I want you
to, just wondering if you might).
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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