Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I write documentation for Debian, it'll be in DocBook---and maybe > my first project should be a nice introduction---but it seems like > debiandoc-sgml is not the evolutionary dead end I had thought it to > be.
Someone is going to shoot me for this, but perhaps what Debian should create is a SGML Formal Architecture for it's documentation. This is something like a Meta-DTD. So imagine if you took the debiandoc DTD, and took that as your basic requirements for documentation, and then be defining that as a formal architecture you could have mechanisms for translating Docbook to DebianDoc and SGML parsers which support SGML Architectures could do the validation and transformations for you. Check out the HyTime standard which introduces SGML architectures, and is itself an example of them. http://www.hytime.org. This would not be exposed to users who just use the debiandoc-dtd, but it would give us a structure for incorporating all the other DTD, both XML and SGML that come along via a standard SGML extension.
