DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Minutes: DocBook Technical CommitteeMeeting: 21 Aug 2001

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:31:47PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > |    b. Norm to write a concrete proposal for linking in DocBook 5.0
> 
>   Hum, assuming DocBook 5.0 is XML only, did you evaluate XLink ? I
> assume you at least looked at it, and if yes do you have an archive
> of pros/cons available ?

Using XLink would mean to use XML namespaces in DocBook documents. There
are not many XML editors which are able to deal with namespaced
documents. If you want to use editors like XMetaL, Epic, Emacs+PSGML to
edit DocBook documents with namespace you must create single DTD which
incorporates DocBook + XLink + whatever else (XInclude, MathML, SVG,
...). It is not easy to merge DTDs. 

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