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Subject: SGML support
At the DocBook TC meeting this month, I took an action to point out that our current plans for DocBook V5.0 will probably have less support for SGML than the current DocBook V4.x line. Our plan of record is to work with a RELAX NG schema from which we will generate a W3C XML Schema and an XML DTD. The DTD is not likely to have much in the way of parameterization. It's going to be a "compiled" product much more than a "source" product. This is a consequence of the fact that we're taking advantage of some of the expressive power of RELAX NG. The DTD will be significantly "looser" than the schema. The current 4.X line only supports SGML in a few small ways: it supports some forms of tag minimization and a few inclusions and exclusions. It's not clear to me that there's value in trying to preserve this support in the V5.0 line. The TC would very much like the community's feedback on these plans. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Men are more like the times they http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | live in than they are like their Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | fathers.--Ali Ibn-abi-talib
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