Re: [docbook-tc] Version reference for DocBook Publishers documents?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Dave Pawson wrote:

> So Mr ignorant creates an instance of the latter.
> Takes a liking to using dc:author for instance.
> 
> Tries to validate against docbook and receives this funny error
> (which says nothing about version, or dbpubs....)
> What is he to make of that error?
> 
> If some part of the processing reported that 'hey, this instance
> is dbpubs, you're using docbook' then he might be wiser.

It would be possible to add similar check into standard Schematron
schema for DocBook -- it can report warning always when there is
something special in version attribute. However I'm still not convinced
it would be better then to do nothing in this case.

				Jirka

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