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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: New name for Element name?
On Die, 01 Feb 2000, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Hermann Flacke <hermann.flacke@bluewin.de> was heard to say: > | On Fre, 28 Jan 2000, Norman Walsh wrote: > | > / Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say: > | > | 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? > | > Yes, I'm curious, too... > | > But in any event, if you really want to change the element > | > names, I can't think of any way to do it. You could use the > | > 'remap' attribute to contain the name they want to use, I guess, > | > and maybe make your editing tool display that? > | Well, here we are again. The purpose of using different names for same > | thing is to show the authors not a simple "title" but a "title of this" > | and a "title of that" and so on. So the tool would map the entries > | for the user. This way the user knows what he's writing. Parsing the > | xml/sgml file would then retrieve "title of this", for example. > > I'm still at a loss. What tool are your authors using? How is it that > <title> as a child of <chapter> isn't contextually enough information > to indicate that the title is a chapter title? Well, many people who just should not get a longer introduction - just write and go. Bye, Hermann Flacke
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