Re: [docbook-publishers] Tracking DocBook

[Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@pelco.com>]

Hi Nic,

yes, it's certainly something we should look at when a new version is
released. Since I'm on the TC, we should be pretty familiar with what
changes are being introduced and how publishers schema may be impacted.

I'll try to get the spreadsheet shared in a public location for all. I'll
probably restrict write access, but am willing to share!

Thanks and best regards,

--Scott

Scott Hudson |  Pelco by Schneider Electric | United States | API Strategy


On 2/8/11 4:27 PM, "Nic Gibson" <nicg@corbas.net> wrote:

> On 8 Feb 2011, at 17:09, Scott Hudson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Nic,
>> 
>> no, there is no policy on tracking changes to DocBook. It was designed with
>> modularity in mind, though, so one should be able to pick up newer versions
>> of DocBook Core and it should plug in nicely.
> 
> I had a client raise concerns about this today (not my project but another
> part of
> the same group). Their concern was that enhancements would only occur
> in the main DocBook schema.
> 
> As Jirka said, right now Publishers is defined in terms of DocBook 5.0. When
> the
> next release of DocBook occurs do we need to deliberately consider a
> Publishers
> v 1.1?
> 
>> 
>> In other words, the publishers.rnc includes the DocBook core.rnc and several
>> other content models from the DocBook source tree.
>> 
>> It does specifically remove the elements it does not need, such as
>> programlisting and programming inlines.
>> 
>> If a new element is added to core, or a content model changed, then it
>> should immediately be available in publishers, unless we have specifically
>> removed it.
>> 
>> It might not hurt to keep a google doc or something that can provide a
>> public view into all of the elements and whether it is supported in
>> publishers or not. I have a mapping spreadsheet that could be modified to
>> display this, if you think it would be useful?
> 
> I think it would definitely be useful (certainly for me - I'm modelling the
> differences between Penguin's schema and Publishers next week).
> 
> cheers
> 
> nic
> --
> Nic Gibson
> Corbas Consulting
> Digital Publishing Consultancy and Training
> http://www.corbas.co.uk, +44 (0)7718 906817 
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