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Subject: Re: DocBook and DITA
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:25:59PM -0700, Kurt Cagle <kurt.cagle@gmail.com> wrote a message of 47 lines which said: > am hoping to move the browser beyond the traditional role as an HTML > viewer into a more generalized XML viewer. Very good idea, IMHO. > One notion that I've been toying with has been to integrate either > DocBook or DITA support (or both) into the 9.0 browser, due out in > 2007, and would be interested in hearing from the people on this > list both what you think of this I don't think it is sensible to add support for a specific langague such as Docbook (remember that many Docbook users actually use a customization, and that Docbook evolves over time, so hardcoding Docbook knowledge in the browser would be a mistake). IMHO, you should instead support XML parsing + validation (with RelaxNG) + CSS + XSLT and so you could work with any XML language.
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