RE: [docbook] documenting c structs

["Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton 
> So the 
> committee decided that DocBook 5 would provide general 
> elements that could 
> be applied to components in all languages, and DocBook 5 was the 
> opportunity to remove such specific elements.  As you 
> suggested, using a 
> role attribute can make the markup more specific so that a 
> stylesheet can 
> do something different in formatting it.  There is also a 
> DocBook 5.0: The 
> Transition Guide:
> 
> http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/


Yes. I should have mentioned that the Transition Guide suggests <varname
remap="structname"> and <varname remap="structfield"> instead of
<structname> and <structfield> in DocBook 5.

/MJ