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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] [docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4


I think removing the entities entirely from the distribution and then
forcing people to hunt them down and integrate them is a step backwards for
DocBook.

Why not just adopt their entity sets and make them part of the DTD, and then
include them with the distribution?  Do you think they will be changing so
often that this will become a maintenance headache?  We could include
comments for people to get the very latest if they need them.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Johnson" <mrj@debian.org>
To: <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:44 AM
Subject: [docbook-tc] [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.
>
> -- 
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