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Subject: Re: DocBook V4.0beta1
/ Michael Sabrio <rms@fpk.hp.com> was heard to say: | We have a lot of material that uses Command inline like this: | | <Command>cat <Optional><Option>-v</Option></Optional> | <Optional><Replaceable>file</Replaceable></Optional> | </Command> Yipes! We've got to allow that! | Is there any way we could remove Command and Literal from the list of | elements to be restricted to %smallcptr.char.mix in 4.0? That's one option, and it might be the best thing, but is there anything you really want other than Option and Optional? I mean, would (%smallcptr.char.mix;|option|optional)* work for you? (I have reservations about option and optional in literal, but since you've got significant legacy, I won't argue the point :-) Cheers, norm P.S. Wouldn't <cmdsynop><command>cat</command><arg>-v</arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg></cmdsynop> express the semantics better? (I'm looking at <optional><option> and my first reaction is "eewww" :-) -- Norman Walsh <nwalsh@arbortext.com> | The First Amendment is often Principal Software Engineer | inconvenient. But that is besides Arbortext, Inc. (www.arbortext.com) | the point. Inconvenience does not 413.256.6985 Voice/FAX | absolve the government of its | obligation to tolerate | speech.--Justice Anthony Kennedy, | in 91-155
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