Michel Kergoat: > Now, the "killer" question : we are several asking for a "layout mode", that > is, an easy and productive way to work at the layout of a (docbook) document. > As I did mail this list, you seems to find this interesting and a good / > reasonable wish. What is it on, if something is, whith this issue?
The easiest way to do exactly what you want is to create your own DTD and then, to automatically convert the document instances to DocBook using a XSLT style sheet. Denis Bradford wrote: > It's not an XXE bug, it's a feature of the docbook design. I forget all > the reasons for it, but it was definitely a deliberate decision, not an > accident. I believe that the issue is discussed at length in the docbook > mail archive (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/ ), if you > want to check it out for yourself. > > A more technical person can correct me, but I suspect that inserting > sections in any old place complicates the programming side of things > (like XSL style sheets) a lot. And programmability is the point of XML, > I think. Speaking as a tech writer who has lived with docbook for > several years), it has not proved to be a very severe restriction and > may even have improved my writing :-). From a technical point of view, XXE, which makes no difference between a para and a section (both are blocks), would be happy to insert a section between 2 paras *if this was allowed by the DTD*.
