Re: [docbook] Re: How to mark up inline program listings?

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:
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 > / Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> was heard to say:
 > |> We would use <literal> for that case.
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 > | ... which doesn't say that the contained text is a program.
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 > <literal role="code">

This tells humans that the contents are code, but it doesn't do so in a 
standardized way, thus I can't expect software to understand or handle 
that information.

 > But a <code> element is clearly in scope for DocBook.

Might be a good idea, but I don't know what exactly you're proposing.

Would it be inline, block, or both (eg via an attribute)?
What does it mark up; How is it (and it's content) different from 
programlisting?

Tobi

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