[publican-list] Publican 3.0 -- with DocBook 5 or without?

[Jeff Fearn]

On 06/28/2011 05:21 PM, Joshua Wulf wrote:
> If it's six months between releases then it seems we eat the switch now or in another six months. Is there any benefit in waiting, or is it just postponing the inevitable?

IMHO it's just delaying the inevitable, but it will delay P3 and cause 
extra work for writers & translators.

I'm pretty sure we can get most books converted from DB4 to DB5 by 
modifying old2new to use the supplied db4-upgrade.xsl. However there 
will be misses that require writer intervention and there will be an as 
yet unmeasured affect on translations.

Another consideration is FOP 1.0 which has many changes from FOP 0.95 
and applying the fixes required for that to our existing DB4 mods is an 
unknown quantity of work that will have no application on the DB5 XSL.

Cheers, Jeff.