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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: DocBook Annotations
Norman Walsh wrote: > In private correspondence, Jeni Tennison pointed out that > > <acronym>ISBN<alt>International Standard Book Number</alt></acronym> > > does "the wrong thing" if a naive user tries to get the value > of the acronym with > > <xsl:value-of select="acronym"/> > > but I really don't know what we can do about that. I raised same issue during DocBook TC teleconference few months ago (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200410/msg00019.html). The resolution was that DocBook already contains several other elements that are causing the same problem (e.g. indexterm) and thus proposed alt element doesn't add any new difficulty for processing. > Although I see the similarity, I'm opposed to replacing footnote. Yes, > a footnote could be considered a special class of annotation, but the > fact is, we have hundreds of years of experience with footnotes, and > we're all used to calling them footnotes. I imagine there are a lot of > authors that will use footnote without a second's thought that > wouldn't have any idea what an annotation was for. +1 Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Profesionální školení a poradenství v oblasti technologií XML. Podívejte se na náš nově spuštěný web http://DocBook.cz Podrobný přehled školení http://xmlguru.cz/skoleni/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
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