Re: [docbook-apps] Google summer of code

[Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca>]

On 03/18/2010 12:49 AM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> On 03/14/2010 03:26 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
>>>
>>> My sense (which I guess I've voiced a couple times) is that there is 
>>> already an awfully lot (too much, IMO) about DB that is specific to 
>>> programming languages.  Our localization has over 200 lines like
>>> <define name="db.classsynopsis"><notAllowed/></define>
>>> My guess is that if you were to add programming elements in a 
>>> separate namespace, you would want to move all the existing 
>>> programming-specific elements into that namespace too.
>>
>> I don't think this is possible without breaking lots of existing 
>> documentation.
>>
>> If backward-compatibility wasn't an issue, I would very much like the 
>> suggestion.
>
> Given that the root element of a DocBook 5 file looks something like
> <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";...
> is this really a problem?  Couldn't a DB document written for the new 
> modular DocBook schema have something like
> <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/ModDocBook";
> or
> <chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook6";...
> ?  So any documentation written in the Olde DB could continue to use 
> the old schema, and not get broken.

Sure, DocBook 6 could do that. But such an endeavor is entirely out of 
scope for the task I'm proposing here, or anything else related to this 
coming GSoC. You may want to lobby Norm for that. :-)

Regards,
         Stefan

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