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Re: Announce: DocBook XML Schema
/ Michael Smith <smith@io.com> was heard to say:
| > http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/docbook/
|
| Are there any plans to eventually embed documenation -- that is,
| element and attribute descriptions -- in the DocBook schema?
In the long run, yes. But the schema will be experimental for a long
time, I think. What I haven't started to do yet is figure out how to
write customization layers on top of the schema.
| Do W3C XML schemas even have a formal mechanism for doing that?
| (I know that some other schema types do.)
Yes, as Bob explained.
| One of my hopes for schemas in general is that they will make it
| easy for schema designers to embed element and attribute
| descriptions -- that it will become common practice, really.
That would be nice.
| One obvious advantage is that end users can then use something
| like your own DTDParse or Earl Hood's dtd2html to generate really
Right. I'm trying to do that with doc: elements in my XSL stylesheets.
| But I think an even bigger advantage would be that the element and
| attribute descriptions could potentially be accessed from within
| applications, so that if an end user is using a validating editor
That would be cool.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to the pitcher. The pitcher fell
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | on the stone? Woe to the
| pitcher.--Rabbinic Saying