From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 20 3:25:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6FF37B41A; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 5EA6C4B661; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:25:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:25:29 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: doc@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should i be using sgml or xml? Message-ID: <20011220032529.F27392@windriver.com> References: <20011219192738.E95146@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011219192738.E95146@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:27:38PM -0600 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message