David Latapie wrote:
Hello,
I never used it, but a common complaint about DocBook is that there is
too much tags.
Now, considering how microformats seems to be the Next Big Thing™ (and
we are talking quite a lot on this ML about this technology), could
someone with a background in DocBook tell me (us) how
X/HTML5+microformats differs from DocBook?
Please remember I may have wrong ideas about DocBook (or about X/HTML5,
for that matter).
I believe the "Simplified DocBook" DTD was invented to address the
concern that DocBook was too complicated. I've seen Simplified DocBook
as an attempt to get an "HTML-like" simplicity while retaining the
powerful structured nature of DocBook documents.
HTML5 comes at this from the other perspective, to a certain extent:
while Simplified DocBook scaled down DocBook to be more like HTML, HTML5
adds structure elements to HTML to make it a bit more like DocBook in
many respects.
Of course, that's not all HTML5 does. Many of HTML5's new features are
not for "documents" at all, but rather for web applications.
- Re: [whatwg] X/HTML5 and DocBook Martin Atkins
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