Re: [docbook-apps] RELAX NG vs DTD: Sad Statistics

[David Cramer <david@thingbag.net>]

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On 06/02/2012 06:34 PM, Divine Dandelion℠ wrote:
> 2. Processing namespaced documents with docbook-xsl has some 
> limitations. (I could overestimate this fact, however. If 
> limitations, as you wrote, only applied to some edge cases, it may 
> still not force to switch to docbook-xsl-ns.) 3. Thus, it make
> sense to use docbook-xsl-ns with such documents.
> 
> That explains my "RELAX NG <== namespace <== docbook-xsl-ns"
> association.
> 
> On the other hand, DTD documents don't require to be namespaced - 
> therefore, to be processed with docbook-xsl-ns as well. Even so,
> it would only reduced the percentage of RELAX NG oriented users.
> 
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> 
> And I really didn't take into account oXygen / XML Mind users. You
> are completely right, It may significally change the statistics,

...

Also, I've been in a situation where I had elaborate customization
layers that pre-date DocBook 5.x. It was easy to migrate our documents
to DocBook 5, but migrating the customization layers was not something
we had time or needed to do.

Working with RelaxNG is much more pleasant than DTDs and being able to
embed schematron rules in as well allows you to catch a much wider
range of errors.

Finally, some people using DocBook 5.x may be using the xslt 2.0
stylesheets.

David
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