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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 20May 2003
Yann Dirson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:00:27AM +0200, Tobias Reif wrote: > >>Yann Dirson wrote: >>[...] >> >>>Replacing an sgml-sounding feature with an xml-sounding one does not >>>really seem appealing to me (esp. given my bias towards sgml ;). >> >>Norm wrote: "Yes, we should have added xmltag or renamed sgmltag years ago." >>The new element could be added and in that case wouldn't replace sgmltag. >> >>You would use the "sgml-sounding" element for SGML (and possibly some >>XML) stuff, and use the "xml-sounding" element for XML (and possibly >>some SGML) stuff. > > Sure, but you only quoted the 1st part of my mail, I did not mean to omit anything in a way that would skew your intention. I simply quoted the text I referred to: The topic is not just replacing sgmltag, but either replacing it or adding (a) new element(s). > the purpose of > which was just to encourage the election of a generic term, as opposed > to yet another specific one :) But this is not exclusive. > What about TROFF, LaTeX, and LOUT markup, to name a few ? http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/markup.html "markup — A string of formatting markup in text that is to be represented literally [...] Markup contains a string of formatting markup that is to be represented literally in the text. The utility of this element is almost wholly constrained to books about document formatting tools." > A clearly > generic element name in 5.0, maybe with a language/markup/whatever > attribute to tell the type of markup, would even allow to phase out > "sgmltag" in 6.0. Even if there would be one extremely generic element I'd still want one XML-specific element (and I'd be OK with sgmltag staying). Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/
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