At 23:47 24/06/2002 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >Norman Walsh writes: > > > Fork 2: Do It Our Way OR Do It the XLink Way > > > > If we do it our way, we get to define the semantics, but no tool will > > ever support our linking elements directly. (Well, I suppose some > > special purpose DocBook tool might, but let's not worry about that.) > >I'm wondering how such "direct" support would look like. All toolsets >that work with DocBook are in some way specially purposed for DocBook.
I was going to say that. I personally either work with docbook or 'don't'. If I'm working with docbook, then I either accept the stylesheets or modify them (if I can) to suite. Even if mods are 'docbook only', I'd still be happy (or roll my own), since I'm either in 'docbook space' or not, I.e. I have never gone from docbook to other than its html/pdf output formats, which is why I use docbook in the first place. I think I'm trying to say that this group has shown so much common sense so far, I'd trust its judgement for a good while yet :-) Your decision, I'll not knock it! regards DaveP
