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[docbook] Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>
- Cc: Colin Paul Adams <colin at colina dot demon dot co dot uk>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:43:42 -0700
- Subject: [docbook] Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook
- References: <878yspd1hn.fsf@nwalsh.com> <3ED72340.7040906@pinkjuice.com><ltk7c8yc3c.fsf@colina.demon.co.uk> <3ED73006.20301@pinkjuice.com>
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/ Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> was heard to say:
| I mean that no feature of DocBook should rely on any feature from any
| specific schema lang, and that no single specific schema lang should
| be normatively referenced in any DocBook spec.
I don't think I can accept the latter constraint. But suppose I could,
how would you propose to formally describe the structures that are
valid. What constitutes valid is not an academic question, it has
direct bearing on how tools work.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Great men too make mistakes, and
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | many among them do it so often
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | that one is almost tempted to call
| them little men.--Lichtenberg
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