Re: DOCBOOK: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element (RFE613293)

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Michael Smith wrote:

>  1. add a new element (for example, 'Filecontents') with a 'class'
>     attribute and enumerated values to indicate what type of file
>     the marked-up content is from (for example, a program file, a config
>     file, a documentation file, etc.)[2]

Seams resonable, if people can't live with current elements.

> [2] We can't immediately 'replace' the Programlisting element with a new
>     element, because that would break backward compatibility; TC policy
>     requires that we first need to announce that it was being replaced,
>     and then wait to change it in the next major version of the DTD.

I'm strongly against removing programlisting from DTD. This element is
widely used (at least in my docs :-) and it can be used to marking up
something as fragment of program code. Proposed filecontents element
seems to me realy too file oriented -- i.e. you should use it only for
whole files or for things which are stored in file.

				Jirka
 
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