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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...
/ Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com> was heard to say: |On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:14:18PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: |> Quite. Hard that is. And it would introduce N! different "DocBooks". |> How easy would that be to explain? | |I thought it would be difficult. How would I explain N! DocBook DTDs? |Well, they're all subsets of the main DocBook DTD. :-) Suppose there are subsets A, B, and C of DocBook, D. You might want D A A + B A + C A + B + C B B + C C Actually, now that I consider more closely, I guess it's (N-1)! because if A is the core then we'd really get: A A + B A + C A + B + C it wouldn't make sense to have B or C w/o A and presumably D is A + B + C. | I suspect it wouldn't be difficult at all. Most of that work is | already done in TDG. Identifying the most important core 25-50 | elements might be a little tricky, I tried to identify the core 25-50 elements, I wound up with more than 100. Start with 'article' as the only root and give it a whirl. | but identifying the 25-50 related | tag groups (<gui...>, <func...>) shouldn't be *that* hard. :-) If the sets must be strictly non-overlapping, that's going to be tough. If they're allowed to overlap, that's harder to customize. | | Basically, there are a bunch of people who understand HTML and the | idea behind XML that still find the concepts behind DocBook too | daunting. Which concepts of DocBook would be made simpler by the modularity you suggest? | Most of the hard issues *are* editorial. I don't use authoring | tools, but I'd expect that someone who wants to use a particular | 75 elements that describe the content in their document want to | necessarily ignore the other 325 or so that aren't useful. How does having them in the DTD have any bearing, though? | I don't know about that. Structured authoring with a 14 element DTD | doesn't really compare to structured authoring with a 100 or a 400 | element DTD. People know how to use HTML now, and the good ideas behind | XML are rather well entrenched. HTML has a good deal more than 14 elements, even if most people don't use most of them. Which is sort of the point, I think. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | There is no spoon. http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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