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Re: Re: On the size of DocBook...
- From: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
- To: "Matt G." <matt_g_ at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:37:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...
- References: <F140lsj2A1IkleVNnZY00000fde@hotmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:20:38AM +0000, Matt G. wrote:
> This may not please application developers, but I think that users who
> don't care enough about semantics that they would use a wysiwyg-style
> editor don't typically need domain-specific semantics. Just create a
> "core" DocBook that has all/most of the elements needed to represent
> whatever document structures someone may desire. Application developers
> not wanting to parse customized DTDs and stylesheets would have the option
> of supporting only that.
We could even keep generic elements in the core DTD, and define
architectural mappings of module elements into the core DTD, so that
domain-specific processors need only know about their own module, even
if other modules are used.
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