On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 02:44:30PM -0400, Kathleen Moriarty wrote: > Building on Melinda's comments, I recently helped a couple of new authors. > I pointed them to the XML template and the plug-in to XMLmind. They > produced a draft rather quickly with very few questions. They had not > worked much with XML, but had enough experience with other format > languages. They made use of the plug-in features and used it differently > than I do. I switch back to see the XML and fix things. They were just > excited to generate a draft in which they felt they were contributing. Yeah, it does seem lik the XML hate is mostly just that, but that our use of XML is not really a blocker. But these are feelings we're talking about -- all subjective. Better than talking about the RSE situation though. Nico --