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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook XML Schema
Norm, you wrote: > For those of you who are interested, I've made a first crack at > an XML Schema for DocBook. See > > http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/docbook/ Are there any plans to eventually embed documenation -- that is, element and attribute descriptions -- in the DocBook schema? Do W3C XML schemas even have a formal mechanism for doing that? (I know that some other schema types do.) One of my hopes for schemas in general is that they will make it easy for schema designers to embed element and attribute descriptions -- that it will become common practice, really. One obvious advantage is that end users can then use something like your own DTDParse or Earl Hood's dtd2html to generate really complete, human-readable documentation for a schema. Literally, with the descriptions embedded, each user on his or her own could generate the equivalent of the reference part of "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" each time a new DocBook release came out. But I think an even bigger advantage would be that the element and attribute descriptions could potentially be accessed from within applications, so that if an end user is using a validating editor and trying to choose from the many element or attribute options the schema allows them to use at a certain point in a document, they can just use a pull-down menu or something to get a element or attribute description to guide them in making the choice. That would be a big, big help in making the XML authoring process easier for new users -- especially with a DTD/schema that provides as many choices as DocBook does. Regards, --Mike Smith -- Michael Smith mailto:smith@xml-doc.org XML-DOC http://www.xml-doc.org/
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