Re: [docbook] Allowing arbitrary elements as the root of a DocBook document

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Robert,
I would suggest you take a look at the first candidate release of DocBook 
5.1, available here:

http://docbook.org/xml/5.1CR1/rng/

The docbookxi.rnc file should answer your question, if you read RNC. 
Feedback is solicited.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Robert Fekete" <frobert@balabit.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7:02 AM
To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook] Allowing arbitrary elements as the root of a DocBook 
document

> That's great news!
>
> Will it also liberalize the use of xincludes? Now sometimes I get 
> validation errors when xincluding segments at weird locations.
>
> Robert
>
>  On Monday, August 26, 2013 18:03 CEST, "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> 
> wrote:  > This problem was recognized after DocBook 5.0 was released.
> > DocBook 5.1 will liberalize this policy and allow just about any element 
> > to
> > be the root element.
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "David Cramer" <david@thingbag.net>
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 8:02 AM
> > To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > Subject: [docbook] Allowing arbitrary elements as the root of a DocBook
> > document
> >
> > > Users sometimes want to create DocBook documents such that some
> > > arbitrary element is the root (e.g. <table>) and then xinclude that 
> > > file
> > > into a larger doc more than one time. The motivation is to avoid the
> > > need to put an id on the element but still be able to refer to it from
> > > an xi:include. The hitch is that if they validate this standalone file
> > > against the DocBook schema, it's not valid because it doesn't have 
> > > book,
> > > chapter, section, etc as a root element. I've customized the schema in
> > > the past and am about to do that again, but it makes me wonder, what is
> > > the rational for only allowing a few elements to be the root of a
> > > DocBook document. If I want to create a DocBook document that has
> > > <table> or even <phrase> as its root element, why shouldn't it be
> > > considered valid?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David
> > >
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