Re: DOCBOOK: Re: external programlistings

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Dave Makower <davemak@iclick.com> was heard to say:
| Is what I am doing -- including a source code listing from a separate 
| file -- so anathema to structured document authoring that years 
| should go by with the only solutions being (a) a hack and (b) an 
| external tool?  Why was such functionality eschewed from 
| XML/XSL/DocBook?
| 
| (These are not meant to be rhetorical or facetious questions.  I'm a 
| software developer, not a trained technical writer or structured 
| documentation expert, and I seek to gain a better understanding of 
| the school of thought that produced these technologies.)

IMHO only:

- It doesn't belong in XML, it's an application issue
- It belongs in XSL, but it didn't make it into 1.0.
- We've always been hesitant to add it to DocBook because it appears
  that XLink would provide the same functionality.

With respect to my comment that <inlinegraphic format="linespecific">
is a hack, over time I've decided that my comment was a bit flip.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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