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Subject: Re: [docbook] DTD from extended RNC
On 21/05/18 13:17, Dave Pawson wrote: [...] > Peter is also on this list. IMHO he is biased :-) Yes, guilty as charged :-) nxml is a fine mode for editing "data" XML, and perhaps even for editing existing text, but it is hopelessly unsuitable for *writing* — that is, using XML when you are authoring a real-life "document" document from scratch. It lacks the editorial controls present in psgml (which in turn has omissions of its own: nothing is perfect). nxml and psgml both need to be brought in line with the many typographical XML editors and given a better user interface. Both are perfectly capable of being used, but the pain factor is far lower with psgml *when you are an author writing* an article, book, thesis, etc. Documentation is an edge case: some doc just has a list of menus and functions and a short sentence about each; other doc has more expository text and requires a more extensive set of controls to write or edit effectively. > Anything you can do with a DTD you can do with rng/rnc. Correct. Which is why, if you want a DTD, the best way to do it is to use RNC to model the document type, and then emit DTD by transformation. It is a popular conceit to assume that DTDs are on the way out. ///Peter
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