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Subsets anyone?
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at speakeasy dot net>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:05:36 -0400
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Subsets anyone?
I've noticed DocBook seems to have a shortage of tags, so I figured I'd
propose my own. I began to build a 'master' document for the documents I
have. My documents are currently books. Thus far, my books physically
reside in separate directories with the files for each book colocated with
the others of that book.
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book1/subj1-book1.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book1/subj1-book1-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book1/subj1-book1-ch2.xml
...
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book2/subj1-book2.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book2/subj1-book2-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject1/subj1-book2/subj1-book2-ch2.xml
...
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book1/subj2-book1.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book1/subj2-book1-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book1/subj2-book1-ch2.xml
...
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book2/subj2-book2.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book2/subj2-book2-ch1.xml
/root-of-work/subject2/subj2-book2/subj2-book2-ch2.xml
...
I realized I wanted to form a global document to hold all these books. So I
started to make a set. I then realized that I actually wanted a set for each
subject, and then a set of all sets. But then I wondered if the set of all
sets could contain itsself. After I recovered from the mental stack
overflow, I decided subsets might be nice to have.
Do others follow my thinking here? Is this a good idea?
STH