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Subject: Re: [docbook] RDFa Lite inside <info>


On Sun, 4 Jul 2021 at 12:53, Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> DocBook <annotation> markup is a facility for making out-of-line
> comments about a text. You can point from the annotation to the
> annotated text, or from the annotated text to the annotation. What you
> put *in* the annotations and what the annotations *mean* in the context
> of *your document* is up to you!

Which covers fully my wider definition.


>
> My intuitive feeling about them is that theyâre something like
> footnotes, but maybe not intended for the traditional presentation of
> footnotes or maybe made by a third party and so not part of the actual
> document, but about it.

I agree with your caution Norm. What we do with them.... up to the user.

Clever lot this docbook team :-)

regards



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Dave Pawson
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