discuss: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
Subject:
Re: Author Guide - Writing a New HOWTO in DocBook
From:
Mark Komarinski ####@####.####
Date:
14 Mar 2001 01:01:02 -0000
Message-Id: <3AAEC2BF.4AF3263C@valinux.com>
Ow. Quit it. That hurts...
Anyway, the reason is, I figured I'd jump the gun and try the conversion
to XML. I wanted to do it so I could get more experience with XML while
giving Greg F something nice to test with. If you can't render the LAG,
what can you render? :)
I see no reason *not* to start advocating using XML over SGML, except
for many of the tools for processing DocBook (Cygnus tools, vim, Emacs(?))
assume you're using DocBook SGML - which may be a very big reason for
many authors.
-Mark
"Patrick K. O'Brien" wrote:
>
> The Author Guide recommends starting a new HOWTO with:
>
> <!DOCTYPE ARTICLE PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">
>
> Yet the guide itself is using the latest XML version of DocBook:
>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN' [
>
> Is there any reason why we shouldn't be telling people to start their new
> documents with DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2?
>
> ---
> Patrick K. O'Brien
> Orbtech (http://www.orbtech.com)
> "I am, therefore I think."
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