Re: [docbook-tc] Version reference for DocBook Publishers documents?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Dave Pawson wrote:

> I've always expected the version to be numeric Scott?

That was never case with DocBook 5. See

http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#cust-naming

http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch05.html#s-notdocbook

> For which TDG is clear. "Don't call it docbook"
> Bit late now, but renaming the document element
> to x-pubs, where x is book/article/... perhaps?

Why to rename root element, it doesn't make sense.

> Or simpler, just give it a clear / different name,
> then use docbook ns etc?

I think it is enough to call it DocBook Publishers or something like
that and add version="5.0-variant publishers-1.0" to root element.

(variant is better then extension, because some elements were removed)

			Jirka

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