discuss: Docbook questions
Subject:
Re: Docbook questions
From:
"John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Nov 2003 17:13:42 -0000
Message-Id: <200311191713.hAJHDfAD016484@ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com>
At (time_t)758304000 Saqib Ali wrote:
> For e.g. you can use XPath to retrieve information in the <sect3/> block
> with certain attributes.
> However if you just used <section/> for all subsection, it becomes harder to
> retrieve the block of information that you need.
Does XPath 2.0 make this task easier?
I agree that
match="//chapter/section/section/section|//article/section/section/section"
is much clumsier than match="sect3". Is it so much worse that
the more flexible solution should be set aside, however?
> I would like to have all the HOWTOs stored in XML DB like Xindice, make it
> available for querying using XPath, if anybody wants to. I know this is a
> far-fetched idea, but if we start with documents that are well-structured
> and well-formed, we are one step closer.
I'm very much in favor of well-structured solutions like this,
but I'm at a loss to imagine how it would add significant value.
As you say, though, there are plenty of more pressing problems.
-John
