DOCBOOK: Why no MAP/SHORTREFs in DocBook?

[Trevor Jenkins <trevor at suneidesis dot com>]

In using the DocBook DTD in anger recently I've found it very
inconvenient that there is no use of the MAP feature or at the least
hooks, by which I mean parameter entity declarations, so the user can
define them themselves. The sort of thing I'd expected to be part of
DocBook was for &RS;&RE; sequences to be interpreted as occurences of a
para start tag. Even having those sequences defined as maps belonging to
para, simplepara, or formalpara so that a sequence of theses elements
are be marked-up with little effort on my part would be an advance.

It's the lack of the hooks for such things witin the DTD that I find
annoying.

Ho hum, suppose I'll have to do it myself.

Regards, Trevor

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