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Subject: [docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4
I punt my vote to Adam Di Carlo (Hi Adam:) on this one, since he packages DocBook and some entities for Debian, and has a much better sense of the packaging issues. Cheers, Mark > I think it's time to stop shipping our own hacked sets with DocBook. > > Pro: - one less set of entities in the world > - makes the distribution smaller > - fixes a recently reported bug that the mapping for hyphen > is incorrect in the current sets > - relies on an external standard for XML entities just like for SGML > entities > - means that a single set can be shared across all of a users documents > > Con: - one more thing for the end user to install > - I don't know if they're packaged yet > - the system identifier will hit the net if you aren't using a catalog > of some sort > > > On balance, I think the pros outweigh the cons, but I doubt that'll > get unanimous agreement. -- ____________________________________________________________ Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org> Debian XML/SGML: <http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org> Home Page: <http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/> GPG fp: DBEA FA3C C46A 70B5 F120 568B 89D5 4F61 C07D E242
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