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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Technical DTDs vs. non-technical
I agree with Alvaro; while DocBook can be "stretched" a little to go beyond "just" technical documentation, the implication that it can be meaningfully used for plays and the like isn't realistic. It's also something of a misuse of XML, because the entities are no longer semantically associated with the meaning enbedded in the document. For example, the idea of a "character" (not in the ASCII sense) is central to a play. So is the idea of a "setting". The only way to tag this using DocBook is to use attributes. But that's not the best way. You can always look at Jon Bosak's DTD for plays for examples. http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/bosakShakespeare200.html
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