Re: [docbook] Whatever happened too CSS+XML?

[Noah Slater <nslater@gmail.com>]

> Sure you can embed those tags inside DocBook content, but it will not be
> DocBook anymore. If you put engine from Trabant inside your Corvette,
> you will not have Corvette anymore. You will have very obscure hybrid car.

Not at all. One of the benefits of using RELAX NG is that it supports
multiple namespaces [1]. You are free to embed SVG and XHTML markup
inside a DocBook document. This is perfectly valid [2]. From section
"Why switch to DocBook V5.0?" we have:

"DocBook V5.0 is more extensible. Having DocBook V5.0 in a separate
namespace allows you to easily mix DocBook markup with other XML based
languages like SVG, MathML, XHTML or even FooBarML."

[1] http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/nrl.html
[2] http://docbook.org/docs/howto/

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