Re: [docbook] Advice needed on annotating page breaks...

[Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>]

Hi,

even if it is close to heresy, but wouldnt TEI (http://www.tei-c.org) be a
better choice of a DTD to preserve the structure of existing dead-tree
documents? TEI was designed for that purpose and has a variety of elements to
support problems like yours, e.g. the pb element that denotes a pagebreak in
the original text.

regards,
Markus

> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 17:00 +1000, Stuart Hungerford wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need a little bit of advice from the DocBook community
> > on the best way to handle this situation:
> >
> > We're creating DocBook documents that are re-typed
> > versions of various old paper published documents. DocBook
> > is a good match for the chapters, sections, tables and
> > paragraphs etc that make up these source documents.
> >
> > It's very important to us to record where page breaks
> > occur in the source documents and we're currently using
> > <annotation> elements for this.
> >
> > The problem is that the DocBook 5 schema doesn't allow
> > <annotation> elements to appear in all the places we
> > need (e.g. between sections of a chapter, or before a
> > chapter title).
> >
> > I can see several ways to handle this, but I'm not sure
> > which way (if any) is best practice:
> >
> > - modify the schema to allow <annotation> elements
> >    anywhere
> >
> > - find a better element for these page breaks than
> >    <annotation>
> >
> > - use an XML processing instruction instead
> >
> > Any advice much appreciated,
> >
> > Stu
> >
>
>
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