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[docbook] Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook
- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:12:15 +0200
- Subject: [docbook] Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook
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Norman Walsh wrote:
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/ Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> was heard to say:
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| I think you misunderstood me. Sure there must be at least one
| normative schema in addition to the human lang spec. The XHTML 2
| working group for example plans to supply the schema in three
| versions, DTD, RNG, WXS (XSD), all of them will be normative (AFAIK).
I don't want to go there. That would IMHO only be possible if the
constraints of the language were equally expressable in all the
schemas. That would require that the constraints be the lowest common
denominator. (And actually I think there are constraints that can't
practically be expressed in DTDs anyway.)
So you plan on supplying one normative RNG plus a non-normative DTD and
a non-normative XSD? Seems to be a sensible plan.
| Let me repeat: IMHO, no feature of DocBook should rely on any feature
| from any specific schema lang, and no single specific schema lang
| should be normatively referenced in any DocBook spec [added for
| clarification:] as required for a conforming implementation.
What is an implementation of DocBook?
Any tool processing DocBook documents and claiming to support its features.
Tobi
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