Hi Norm!
First of all, thanks for your quick reply!
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Norman Walsh wrote:
> [...] On the other,
> adding elements that very few people use makes the DTD more confusing
> to new users.
Are you sure that e. g. names of operating systems occur
infrequently? Especially when writing documentation on administrative
issues, I think <systemitem class="osname"> is used quite often.
> Generally, we tend to freely create new class values. If it develops
> that new items are often used (as was the case with <systemitem
> class='envar'>), we promote it to an element.
Sounds like a reasonable approach to me.
> I hope that helps.
Yep, it does ;-)
Thanks again.
Kind regards,
Holger
