AW: DOCBOOK: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element (R FE613293)

["Schlienger, Marc" <M.Schlienger@bjoernsen.de>]

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:30:57AM +0100, Schlienger, Marc wrote:
> > >  2. add a new attribute to Literallayout, with either 'filecontents'
> or
> > >     various filetypes being among its enumerated values[3].
> > > 
> > 	[Schlienger, Marc]  the disadvantage of this one isn't such a big
> > issue, don't you think? Subclassing for other files than programs should
> not
> > be so important for DocBook, since it is original purpose was to
> document
> > Software Documentation. There could simply be a generic attribute for
> all
> > kind of non-program related files. I could live with this one.
> 
> One could see the need to subclass into "configfile", "logfile",
> "changelogfile" and such, some of which could be easily pretty-printed
> according to the class.  With this solution, one loses the generic
> "filecontents" meaning, and a toolchain that would not know about,
> say, "logfile", won't even be able to present it as a "filecontents".
> 
> 
> > 	We could come up to the question: why isn't there a more general
> > version of DocBook for standard documentation like reports, novels,
> etc.? I
> > believe many people are trying DocBook for these purposes, not only for
> > Software Doc. DocBook could be a specific type of this GeneralDocBook.
> 
> Maybe something like an easily-reusable core DTD, consisting of
> dbhier.mod and of general-purpose subset of the rest, with the
> "standard" DocBook (and possibly other ones) being a customisation
> layer above it ?
	[Schlienger, Marc]  yes, as far as I can understand you. I'm still
new to DocBook and to its inherently rich terminology. What is dbhier.mod?



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