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Re: Announce: DocBook XML Schema
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org, smith at io dot com
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook XML Schema
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot COM>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:08:15 -0800 (PST)
> From: Michael Smith <smith@io.com>
>
> Norm, you wrote:
>
> > For those of you who are interested, I've made a first crack at
> > an XML Schema for DocBook. See
> >
> > 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?
>
> Do W3C XML schemas even have a formal mechanism for doing that?
> (I know that some other schema types do.)
Yes, the XML Schema recommendation includes
<xsd:annotation> elements that can contain
<xsd:documentation> elements for human consumption and
<xsd:appinfo> elements for tools to use.
bobs
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