Re: DOCBOOK: New name for Element name?

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say:
| On Wednesday 26 January 2000, at 22 h 38, the keyboard of Hermann Flacke 
| <hermann.flacke@bluewin.de> wrote:
| 
| > In order to make handling of an sgml/xml-file better, i would like to
| > put some alias-name for within my document or to another dtd. So once
| > there is "mychapter" (but really it is a normal "chapter") and once there
| > ist "yourchapter" (but it still really is a normal "chapter").
| 
| The benefit is not obvious. May be you could explain more?

Yes, I'm curious, too...

But in any event, if you really want to change the element
names, I can't think of any way to do it. You could use the
'remap' attribute to contain the name they want to use, I guess,
and maybe make your editing tool display that?

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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