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Simplifying info wrappers
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:22:12 -0400
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Simplifying info wrappers
DocBook currently has different info wrappers for metadata at (most)
different levels: ArticleInfo, BookInfo, ChapterInfo, Sect1Info, etc.
The original motivation for this scheme was to allow customizers to
change metadata on an element-by-element basis. An organization might
decide to simplify section-level metadata so that, for example, ISBN
numbers were not allowed.
Occasionally, users suggest that it would be simpler and better if
there was just one <info> element.
What do you think?
Has anyone out there ever actually customized the info wrappers so
that the were different in different contexts?
Be seeing you,
norm
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