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Re: [docbook] Ruminations on the future of DocBook

From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
To: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>
Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:13:34 +0200
Subject: Re: [docbook] Ruminations on the future of DocBook
References: <878yspd1hn.fsf@nwalsh.com> <3ED72340.7040906@pinkjuice.com> <ltk7c8yc3c.fsf@colina.demon.co.uk> <3ED73006.20301@pinkjuice.com> <3ED77572.7060902@kosek.cz> <3ED7A9A3.3070700@pinkjuice.com>

Tobias Reif wrote:

It will satisfy most of the requirements, yes.
(Note that Norm lists one shortcoming:
http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/21/docbook
"A future version of RELAX NG might give us back our exclusions.")

This is not shortcoming, but profit. Exclusions are quite useful mechanism known from SGML DTDs but missing in XML ones. Exclusions allow you to remove some elements from content model without needing to change this content. This is useful for complex DTDs where you have content models stored in parametric entities.

Jirka

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