[dbx g2] using modules; version attribute

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

[DocBook XML generation 2]

Hi

Just to thoughts:

* Modules, Subsets

I just heard from a project in a University that they switched away from 
DocBook. The said the language and the related tools are too large.

It would be great if it would be *very* simple to specify a set of 
modules, so that authors and tools can state in one simple line which 
modules they use respectively support.

Eg as in
http://thaiopensource.com/relaxng/xhtml/xhtml-strict.rng :

<grammar ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
          xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0">

   <include href="modules/datatypes.rng"/>
   <include href="modules/attribs.rng"/>
   <include href="modules/struct.rng"/>
   <include href="modules/text.rng"/>
   <include href="modules/hypertext.rng"/>
   <!-- ... -->
</grammar>


* Required Version Atribute

It would be great if the new DocBook would have a required version 
attribute on the root element. This in addition to the namespace will 
make it easier for tools to find out what they are dealing with. (XSLT 
has a version attribute, SVG versions higher than 1.0 require one, etc)


Tobi

-- 
http://www.pinkjuice.com/