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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: Tables, braille and other stuff
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 02:58:21PM -0500, David Cramer wrote: > I'd suggest writing a custom dtd to hold the information (probably a > variant of docbook that allows docbook block level things below a > certain level): > > <mydtd:widget product-version="1.1"> > <para>This thingy does such and such.</para> > </mydtd:widget> > > Then write an xsl that converts mydtd xml to docbook to be included in > your documents--sometimes as a table, sometimes a list, sometimes all of > it, sometimes a subset, depending on your needs. Incremental rendering by applying successive stylesheets is certainly a good option, but I don't take this as a good reason to take such things out of DocBook and let the latter only hold the presentational aspect of things. This raises in my mind another concern: we currently have in DocBook several constructs which are mostly not used by a by-hand composer (ToC, Index, etc), and I guess we could see the "table" stuff in the same way. (at this point /me prepares to be flamed :) Since DocBook is such a large DTD, it may make sense to have a "main set of elements", which would constitute the DocBook DTD proper, and an extended one, built as a customisation layer above DocBook (say "Presentationnal DocBook"), which would add those extra elements with a strong presentationnal bias. Regards, -- Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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