Re: [docbook] Whatever happened too CSS+XML?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Noah Slater wrote:

> I know... but is it really that wrong to combine the two like this? Is
> there no way of conceivably mixing the two in harmony? Perhaps a
> <html:a> embedded in a <link> etc? A bit hacky I know - but you don't
> loose any semantics.

Well, if you would like type link twice and create custom DocBook grammar.

> What would be the harm of using only
> <html:table>, <html:img> and <html:a> in replacements of the DocBook
> elements in your document to produce a perfectly valid document which
> could be rendered by most browsers?

Whole thread was about ability to use DocBook XML directly with CSS. As 
you can see, this is not possible, you must use XHTML elements for some 
things. In this case doing *automatic* (eg. using XSLT) conversion from 
DocBook to XHTML seems as way to go.

> example) the overall semantics are the same. Does it really matter
> which namespace it belongs to in this instance?

For processing tools yes.

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