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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Technical DTDs vs. non-technical
David Mason wrote: >I would have to agree here. I think in some ways, it breaks the spirit of SGML/XML to use DocBook outside the scope of computer related documentation. There isn't a spirit of SGML. Really, there isn't. And the spirit of XML has multiple personality disorder. However, here's another approach to the same issue: we did not find that the structures needed for scholarly books (such as good bibliography support) were not needed for software books. In fact, lots of software books are much like scholarly books in the humanities in their structure, and we considered articles about software topics that were structurally just like articles you'd find in scientific journals. So it was okay and even a good thing to make Docbook useable for scholarly books and articles. Conversely, it would be inappropriate to stretch Docbook to cover genres that don't occur within the domain of software documentation. So plays are out (you can probably mark them up in Docbook and get a style sheet to do the right thing, but not using the semantics TEI provides). regards, Terry
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