Re: DOCBOOK: Presentational markup in Docbook

[Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 07:16 PM 7/17/01, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>On 17 Jul 2001 18:07:53 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
>> At 09:00 PM 7/16/01, Norman Walsh wrote:
>> 
>> >Whether or not <span class="red">stuff</span> is messing up the
>> >semantics of your document or not is open to discussion :-)
>> 
>> Don't expect the class attribute to last much longer.
>> Whats the docbook phrasing?
>> 
>> 'deprecated in version 5' 'dead in version 5.01'?
>
>Is this only on the span tag, or all tags?  We use class very heavily
>here in the GNOME docs...  <filename
>class="directory">/usr/share/gnome</filename> and such.  I just poked
>around the OASIS and DocBook.org sites, but I can't find the notes on
>the currently planned changed between 4 and 5.  Can anybody give me a
>pointer?  


Sorry Gregory, I was referring to XHTML development, not docbook.
Class attribute has been abused for long enough as an expansion
method for a restricted language. With XML around now, its day
has passed.

Regards DaveP