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Re: New name for Element name?
On Fre, 28 Jan 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say:
> | On Wednesday 26 January 2000, at 22 h 38, the keyboard of Hermann Flacke
> | <hermann.flacke@bluewin.de> wrote:
> |
> | > In order to make handling of an sgml/xml-file better, i would like to
> | > put some alias-name for within my document or to another dtd. So once
> | > there is "mychapter" (but really it is a normal "chapter") and once there
> | > ist "yourchapter" (but it still really is a normal "chapter").
> |
> | The benefit is not obvious. May be you could explain more?
>
> Yes, I'm curious, too...
>
> But in any event, if you really want to change the element
> names, I can't think of any way to do it. You could use the
> 'remap' attribute to contain the name they want to use, I guess,
> and maybe make your editing tool display that?
Well, here we are again. The purpose of using different names for same
thing is to show the authors not a simple "title" but a "title of this"
and a "title of that" and so on. So the tool would map the entries
for the user. This way the user knows what he's writing. Parsing the
xml/sgml file would then retrieve "title of this", for example.
I'll try Norm's suggestion for "remap".
Thanks a lot!
Hermann Flacke