Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:52:25 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, doc@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should i be using sgml or xml? Message-ID: <20011220235225.I51511@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20011220093411.A48837@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:34:11AM -0600 References: <20011219192738.E95146@elvis.mu.org> <20011220032529.F27392@windriver.com> <20011220093411.A48837@elvis.mu.org>
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:34:11AM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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?
Emacs + psgml mode + some lisp to automate it.
> You guys planning on doing xml any time soon? (not that I want you
> to, just wondering if you might).
We'll probably switch in 18 months or so. I started saying that a year
ago, and it's always been "18 months". There's no compelling reason to
migrate yet, especially as valid SGML can be mechanically converted to
valid XML.
I've just knocked up
http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/sgmlxml.gif
which shows the relationship between the various components that make up
the SGML and XML processing tool chains. Note the green line going from
"DocBook SGML Source", via "sx", to "DocBook XML Source". This lets us
use the XSLT stylesheets to process SGML, if we wanted. Note also that
Jade, when given the XML declaration on the command line, can process XML
documents using DSSSL -- we really have the best of all possible worlds
at the moment.
N
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