Scott Hudson wrote:
We worked with Norm Walsh to define what the "core DocBook" set of
elements should be, and what elements should be defined in a hardware
module, software module, publishing module (after all what software
docs need poems?), etc.
Sounds like the right approach. After all, what publisher of poems
needs a hardware or software module :-?
Norm had already organized the schemas a fair amount in this
direction, and we helped to formalize it a bit. The new DocBook v5.0
schemas are designed with this modularity in mind, and allows new
modules to be defined either with custom modules or as future
committee developments.
Is this organization what's described in
http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch02.html#ch02-logdiv, under headings
like "User interfaces" and "Programming languages and constructs"? Is
there a description somewhere of the further formalization?
If you could all do me a favor and tap your favorite XML Editor
vendor and make sure they add support for RelaxNG (full and compact
syntax) validation, it would go a long way. I've tried pinging them,
and they say there's just not enough customer demand yet.
XMLmind v5 supports this, unless there's something I'm missing:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/rngsupport/implementation_in_xxe.html
--
Mike Maxwell
"We signify something too narrow when we say:
Man is a grammatical animal. For although there
is no animal except man with a knowledge of grammar,
yet not every man has a knowledge of grammar."
--Martianus Capella, "The Seven Liberal Arts"
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