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Re: objection to docbook.dcl
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: objection to docbook.dcl
- From: Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:44:41 -0500
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <oawv9jbmm4.fsf@arroz.fake> <87wv9jrr4u.fsf@nwalsh.com>
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> / Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> was heard to say:
> | accept. The unnecessarily broad divergance of the shipped Docbook
> | declaration puts a burden on document engineers using DocBook.
>
> This whole problem is probably the result of documentation errors on
> my part. The declaration shipped with DocBook is advisory and was
> never intended to be normative: the documentation should state that
> clearly.
>
> There's no reason why you should use it if your software behaves
> better with a different declaration.
Yes, I've disabled it for the Debian distribution. However, it
*appears* normative in that the docbook.cat file ships with it turned
on via the DTDDECL (understood by OpenJade but not Jade).
I guess in short my recommendation would become that that DTDDECL in
the shipped docbook.dcl be turned off, with perhaps an explanatory
comment there what its for.
> Is this workaround being accomplished by editing the file that
> purports to be ISOcyr1.ent from ISO 8879? Yuck! Please give those
> modified entity sets a different public identifier and store them
> somewhere else
I'll take that under advisement. Something is clearly not right. The
problem -- you might recall this -- is regarding SDATA entities not
understood by jade or openjade. It might be best just to try to fix
Jade.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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