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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] RELAX NG vs DTD: Sad Statistics


On 2.6.2012 11:01, Divine Dandelion℠ wrote:

> 2.  DocBook XSLT Stylesheets 1.77.0 was released two weeks ago.
> 
> Download statistics (http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/):
> ================
> docbook-xsl-ns (RELAX NG) -  30 696 downloads (8.5%)
> docbook-xsl (DTD)               - 329 401 downloads (91.5%)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Total:                                  - 360 097 downloads (100%)
> 
> Only 8.5% of users have transited to RELAX NG, the rest are still stuck to
> "old-fashioned" DTD. Not too brilliant result for 2.5 years, is it?

Please note that stylesheets doesn't have any relation to schema
language used. You can use docbook-xsl for processing both DocBook V4.X
and DocBook V5.X documents and same apply to docbook-xsl-ns. Differences
are only in handling some edge cases.

Also even if download of docbook-xsl-ns would indicate usage of DocBook
V5.X you don't know what schema language is used for validation of
DocBook V5.X.

Also many users are working with DocBook in tools like oXygen or XML
Mind XML editors that have DocBook stylesheets and schemas preinstalled.

So you need to investigate better static method before being sad :-)

				Jirka


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