DOCBOOK: Simplified DocBook is simply broken

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

The following report arrived a day or two ago.

| Hello,
|
| The document below validates against the Simplified DocBook XML DTD
| version 1.0b2, but has multiple errors when validated against the
| DocBook XML DTD version 4.1.2.
[...]
| <article>
|   <figure id = "foo">
|     <title></title>
|     <xref linkend="foo"></xref>
|     <footnoteref linkend="foo"></footnoteref>
|   </figure>
|   <programlisting>
|     <systemitem><systemitem></systemitem></systemitem></programlisting>
|   <informaltable>
|     <tgroup cols="bar">
|        <colspec lang=""></colspec>
|        <tbody><row><entry></entry></row></tbody>
|     </tgroup>
|   </informaltable>
| </article>

And it's true. Simplified DocBook is seriously broken in a couple of
ways. I'll put out a beta 3 next week that fixes these errors.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
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Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | only advocate murder out of sheer
                                   | wickedness.--Italo Svevo