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Re: Technical DTDs vs. non-technical
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Technical DTDs vs. non-technical
- From: "David C. Mason" <dcm at redhat dot com>
- Date: 23 Jun 2000 14:54:21 -0400
- References: <D165D895D883D211952100805F6521731625A5@sppe.com>
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Alvaro Siman <alsiman@sppe.com> writes:
> DocBook was "primarily written for books about computer software and
> hardware". "Because its main structures correspond to the general
> notion of what constitutes a "book,", it is assumed that it
> automatically addresses the needs of Literature in general.
>
> However, this may not be true about 'humanistic' subject matter.
> Assuming that "literature" covers the whole spectrum of the written
> word, therefore it automatically covers any of its subsets is not
> exactly correct. If that were so, there wouldn't be a specific need
> for MathML, or LegalML, or any other of the XML specializations.
I would have to agree here. I think in some ways, it breaks the spirit
of SGML/XML to use DocBook outside the scope of computer related
documentation. I do not know of a DTD that specifically meets the needs
of what you are asking for - nor do I think this is the forum. Perhaps
the comp.text.sgml newsgroup would be better.
Dave