Re: [docbook-tc] align common elements?

[Steven Cogorno <Steven.Cogorno@Sun.COM>]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Scott Hudson wrote:

> At what level do you think we should focus on DocBook  
> interoperating with DITA and/or ODF?
>
> I was thinking that some of the more common elements/structures  
> would have some benefit to being interchangeable.

In theory, maybe.  In my experience "almost" the same DTDs are still  
not very compatible.

When we rev SolBook, even minor changes make content from one  
document incompatible with another.  It's just simpler to provide a  
transformation program.


> Perhaps at this point, the differences in content models prevent  
> that and we just have to look to mapping the transformations...

Yep, I think so.

-Steve