From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 20 7:34:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF4037B405; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id EECC581E0B; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:34:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:34:11 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Murray Stokely Cc: doc@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should i be using sgml or xml? Message-ID: <20011220093411.A48837@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011219192738.E95146@elvis.mu.org> <20011220032529.F27392@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011220032529.F27392@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:25:29AM -0800 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 * Murray Stokely [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message