Re: DOCBOOK: New name for Element name?

[Hermann Flacke <hermann dot flacke at bluewin dot de>]

On Die, 01 Feb 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:

> / Hermann Flacke <hermann.flacke@bluewin.de> was heard to say:
> | 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'm still at a loss. What tool are your authors using? How is it that
> <title> as a child of <chapter> isn't contextually enough information
> to indicate that the title is a chapter title?

Well, many people who just should not get a longer introduction - just write
and go.

Bye,

Hermann Flacke