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Subject: Re: EBNF for DocBook




"Eve L. Maler" wrote:
> 
> 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.

That'd be goodness indeed.

> 
> 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.

That's only applicable in a pure XML environment -- I would recommend
strongly against this until we're at version 5.0

Eduardo

> 
>          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"? :-)
> 
> --
> Eve Maler            Sun Microsystems
> elm @ east.sun.com    +1 781 442 3190


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