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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: DocBook XML Schema
/ Michael Smith <smith@io.com> was heard to say: | > http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/docbook/ | | Are there any plans to eventually embed documenation -- that is, | element and attribute descriptions -- in the DocBook schema? In the long run, yes. But the schema will be experimental for a long time, I think. What I haven't started to do yet is figure out how to write customization layers on top of the schema. | Do W3C XML schemas even have a formal mechanism for doing that? | (I know that some other schema types do.) Yes, as Bob explained. | One of my hopes for schemas in general is that they will make it | easy for schema designers to embed element and attribute | descriptions -- that it will become common practice, really. That would be nice. | One obvious advantage is that end users can then use something | like your own DTDParse or Earl Hood's dtd2html to generate really Right. I'm trying to do that with doc: elements in my XSL stylesheets. | But I think an even bigger advantage would be that the element and | attribute descriptions could potentially be accessed from within | applications, so that if an end user is using a validating editor That would be cool. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to the pitcher. The pitcher fell Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | on the stone? Woe to the | pitcher.--Rabbinic Saying
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