Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing supportfor DocBook

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Scott Hudson wrote:
> I agree with Michael. oXygen isn't just for editing DocBook. It's an 
> all-purpose XML editor. Different standards will have different element 
> names for the same basic semantic. <Emphasis role="bold"> in DocBook is 
> the equivalent of <b> in DITA and HTML, and ODF and MS OpenXML will have 
> their equivalents as well.

I don't know DITA but <emphasis role="bold"> is not the equivalent of 
<b> in HTML. DocBook has no equivalent of <b> in HTML. The equivalent of 
<emphasis role="bold"> in HTML is <em style="font-weight: bold; 
font-style: plain"> or perhaps <strong>. It is not <b>.

MS OOXML likely attempts to match the presentation based semantics of 
Word. It is not at all like DocBook. I suspect ODF is similar in that 
respect.

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