Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 24 Sep 2001

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@alcove.fr>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:42:30PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> |    456469 Entities for more attributes
> 
> Rejected. The existing mechanisms are sufficient.

Well, they do not help much in this respect, when it comes to
upgrading a new version of DocBook.  But well, that's not the only
limitation in the provided customisation model - most of them coming
from syntactic constrainsts.

I've started to work on the specs of a DTD customisation engine, that
would allow to say "remove this element/attribute" and such, and check
constraints like "it must be a pure subset" in rewritten rules.  I'll
open a project on freesoftware.fsf.org to have a place to discuss the
scope and implementation of the thing.

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