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

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Dave Pawson wrote:

> Which is fine for a user that understands that difference.
> How many do?
> 
> IMHO it would be more 'friendly' for processing to make
> it very clear.
> 
> We now have
> docbook
> Oasis docbook variants
> Unofficial docbook variants (webside, slides)
> and non docbook (my own, I changed one element)
> 
> I'd like these to be clearly identified, somehow, to the user.

You can:

1) manually assign schema
2) change name of root element
3) change namespace of elements
4) use version attribute

Options 2) and 3) breaks existing toolchains, so they are no go.

Option 1) doesn't universally work, because people might use different
schemas (RELAX NG vs. XSD) caused by limitations in tools used.

Option 4) seems as an optimal solution -- it doesn't break anything but
can be used to locate appropriate schema.

			Jirka

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