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Subject: DOCBOOK: Support for marking up newsgroups


The DocBook TC struggles often with the question of how to add new
flavors of markup to the DTD. In particular, it's often difficult to
decide when a new inline element is warranted and when a new class of
systemitem is sufficient.

One criteria has to do with the frequency of use. If the element is
likely to be used only infrequently, adding a class to systemitem has
a minimum impact on the authoring experience (there's no new element
in drop-down lists, stylesheets require less changing, etc.)

The TC would appreciate feedback on how often it is desirable to
markup newsgroups. Is <systemitem class='newsgroup'> too inconvenient
in this case?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Almost every man wastes part of
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | his life in attempts to display
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | qualities which he does not
                                   | possess, and to gain applause
                                   | which he cannot keep.--Dr. Johnson


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