On 29 Nov 1998, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I don't think you've really grasped what a Formal Architecture would > buy us.
That is quite possible. > We could *translate* from Docbook to debiandoc.dtd in a > (theoretically) lossless format. Ah. That solves the output format thing, but not the lack of certain tags in DocBook, right? i.e. if DocBook never had the information, it can't be translated? > We would be DTD agnostic. Since the > DTDs (at this particular point int time) are bound to a formatting > engine (debiandoc.dtd with Perl/sasp, docbook with DSSSL/jade), we > could exploit the benefits of both. > >From a formatting engine standpoint only, right? > Of course it's all vapor until someone does it, but, please, don't > knock it until you at least understand it. > Explain it then. Sheesh. I am discussing, not knocking, and so I do not pretend to know all the facts beforehand. Thus my first mail ended in a '?'. Thanks, Havoc
