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Subject: Re: Switch to W3C/ISO character entity sets
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> was heard to say: | On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:48:31PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: |> > I propose that we cease distribution of our own set of entities in the |> > next release of DocBook (specifically, V4.3b6 and beyond) and point |> > instead to the W3C/ISO sets. |> |> I agree that DocBook TC should not take care about maintaining entity |> sets. But on the other hand I think that up-to-date snapshot of W3C/ISO |> entities should be distributed as a part of the DocBook DTD distribution |> for easier use. In that case using relative system identifiers will be |> fine and will work even without catalog support. | | I agree with Jirka. In addition to the convenience | factor, there is the issue of maintaining the | integrity of the DocBook standard. The entities But we never distributed the entity sets for the SGML DTD. If a public set had been available when we started the XML DTD, I don't think we would ever have distributed them for XML either. | are part of the DTD. Leaving the management | of the entities to another organization means | they can change entities independently of the DTD | versioning. Then we will have the possibility | of multiple DTDs that claim to be version 4.3. | | I think the DocBook TC should use the W3C/ISO entities | as the input to the DocBook DTD, but include them | and roll the minor version number when they change. That might be the right thing to do, at least until the W3C/ISO standardization is complete. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | To see the world in a grain of http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | sand,/And a heaven in a Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | wildflower,/Hold infinity in the | palm of your hand/and eternity for | an hour.--William Blake -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE/oFmzOyltUcwYWjsRAhFjAJ9iKD6HtU3isPPq7sMZ6SBCcth/qQCfR1Y3 tuAzASP+WKhOtcpRhqlA1oU= =99HY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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