Re: DOCBOOK: New name for Element name?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Wednesday 26 January 2000, at 22 h 38, the keyboard of Hermann Flacke 
<hermann.flacke@bluewin.de> wrote:

> In order to make handling of an sgml/xml-file better, i would like to
> put some alias-name for within my document or to another dtd. So once
> there is "mychapter" (but really it is a normal "chapter") and once there
> ist "yourchapter" (but it still really is a normal "chapter").

The benefit is not obvious. May be you could explain more?

> So authors will see their own chapter-names an docbook only sees "chapters"
> and won't complain.
> 
> Is there any way to map individual names to the names docbook uses?

I believe this can be done only by an external pre-processor such as M4.