Re: EBNF for DocBook

["Eve L. Maler" <elm@east.sun.com>]

Yes, I'll try to do this.  The loosey-goosey model in XMLspec has caused 
stylesheet writers no end of grief, so maybe I can come up with the 
equivalent of the old FuncSynopsis FuncPrototype solution and then slip it 
into XMLspec at the next major revision.

BTW, the wide availability of XSLT engines takes the sting out of backwards 
incompatibility!  You can always distribute a stylesheet with an 
incompatible DTD.  Perhaps we might want to consider easing up on the 
DocBook revision schedule requirements.

         Eve

At 08:29 PM 3/2/00 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
>Eve,
>
>At the San Jose DocBook meeting, we briefly discussed adding
>EBNF markup to DocBook. It's not an uncommon request, but no
>proposal has been made.
>
>With the growing use of the XML Spec DTD, it would seem a bit
>strange to add something to DocBook that was very different from
>that DTD, but that markup seems a little "loose" and tricky to
>process.
>
>Could you easily construct a proposal by starting with the XML
>Spec model and "fixing it"? :-)

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Eve Maler            Sun Microsystems
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