Re: [docbook-apps] Re: xsltproc docbook xinclude and catalogs under win32 :-)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:40:14PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:25, Dave Brooks, BCS Systems wrote:
> > At 22:33 22/04/2003 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
> > > >>>>> Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>:
> > > > Unsure about the --docbook option?
> > > > Anyone find it necessary?
> > >
> > >I thought that was to be used when processing DocBook SGML, instead of
> > >XML...?
> > 
> > Correct - I've been caught (and could it be renamed to --sgml in some 
> > future release to help novices??)
> > 
> 
> I agree that the name is a little obscure, but as it's only for
> processing docbook rather than any ol' sgml, "--sgml" would be equally
> unhelpful. I think the solution of a thorough explanation in the man
> page is sufficient.

  Or simply remove that option. It was an hack, a bad one, the only
problem would be ABI backward compatibility. That's why it's still there...

Daniel

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