discuss: DocBook number of elements rant
Subject:
Re: DocBook number of elements rant
From:
"David Braun" ####@####.####
Date:
22 Aug 2003 21:29:12 -0000
Message-Id: <25497-77530@sneakemail.com>
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 14:12, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> Unfortunately David, you just >>don't know<< in advance how your marked
> up text may be processed later. You don't even know who is going to
> process it; or why.
In this case I do know who will process my document: The LDP will.
That's more knowledge than the generic DocBook author has.
> (I can think of several good instances in statistical linguistics why
> someone should want to analyse a series of documents of a certain type
> for the frequency of occurrence of 'copyright' or 'trademark'.)
Right! So why isn't the copyright element in the Sample-HOWTO.xml?
Should it be?
> If however you want it to conform to all other documents produced by the
> LDP, then you are going to have to compromise somewhere along the line
> between your own frustrations, and the needs of the group.
> It really is as simple as that.
Right! So the question I'm trying to ask is, "What are the needs of the
group?"
E.g., Saqib Ali just pointed out the Simplified DocBook (thanks,
Saqib!). Is that acceptable to the LDP?
David
