Re: [docbook-apps] stylesheets for DocBook/TEI 'marriage'?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Gour wrote:

> Recently I saw slides from the Sebastian Rahtz's presentation about the
> (possible) 'marriage' between DocBook & TEI i.e. the upcoming versions V5 of
> DocBook & TEI where it should be possible to mix the two in one document.

Due to Relax NG flexibility it will be quite easy to create customized 
schema which combines DocBook with TEI to several degrees. IMHO this 
won't be in the default DocBook schema.

> It looks very ineteresting and I'd like to hear some opinions how is one
> supposed to resolve the issue of writing stylesheets¹ to support transformation
> of these 'married' XML documents into something else?

It should be quite easy if there are no conflicts in element names, 
named templates names and mode names. I don't know TEI stylesheets in 
the detail so I can't comment on this. But both new versions of DocBook 
and TEI will put their elements in a namespace. Thus element name 
ambiguity will go away. Named templates can be also put in a namespace 
if this will be problem.

So if all goes well it should be sufficient to import both DocBook and 
TEI stylesheets into customized one. Anyway it will be good XSLT 
excersise. :-)

> Does the trick maybe lies in the fact that schema is expressed in Relax NG?

No. One of the Relax NG fundamentals is that it doesn't modify input 
documents (e.g. by attribute defaulting). Relax NG "just" makes very 
easy to customize and extend existing schemas.

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