Re: DOCBOOK: Pattern element for Docbook/Pattern DTD

[Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>]

>I was wondering whether there are DTD's that include
a canonical pattern element, and whether DocBook could
include this? 

There may be such DTDs, but the patterns described in the
reference,

http://hillside.net/patterns/Writing/patterns.html 

are not concrete, and the "elements" described are not
mappable directly to document markup.

Given a specific use of such patterns, one might construct
a resuable transform to Docbook.  But Docbook itself does not
employ abstractions of this nature.

regards, Terry