DOCBOOK: Re: namespace

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ joel amoussou <amoussouj@hotmail.com> was heard to say:
| Is there any namespace for DocBook?

No, DocBook does not have a namespace. The primary reasons are
historical. DocBook predates XML and namespaces by at least five years
and there is significant legacy built on SGML DocBook in which a
namespace would be inconvenient at best.

Even in the XML world, adding a namespace would break just about every
DocBook tool out there.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Not everyone can live upstream.
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | 
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |