Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

Just to add my 0.2 Euros to the comments:

I like:

 - Losing cruft (no comments on the actual elements lost).
   I would _hate_ to see semantic markup go away, when reducing
   complexity 

 - RELAX-NG is something what I expected XML Schemas to look like when
   I first heard about the XML schema effort, and is probably the way
   to go, even though my XML editor, PSGML, doesn't support it

 - Using a namespace.  Even though I think XML namespaces is a clunky
   thing, and the root of much misunderstanding, it's important for
   XML interoperability and the possiblity of mixing vocabularies

 - I like allowing foreign vocabularies.  I think eg. XHTML tables, if
   added, should be in the XHTML namespace.  I'm already using
   XInclude for including text files

I don't like:

 - Designing for the web.
   I would prefer to see "Designing for semantic capture"
   (My emphasis is primarily on printed documentation, ie. as an
   MSWord replacement for our documentation)