Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook Website 2.6.0 released

[Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>]

Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> writes:

> I objected to changing the version of the DTD when in fact the DTD had not
> changed.  It is misleading, and forces people to validate their files to see
> if they still work.  And to get them to validate, every webpage file's
> DOCTYPE in a collection has to be updated for the new DTD version number.
> Webpage sites can have hundreds of files.  If the DTD has not changed, that
> is wasted busy work since it has no benefit.  Perhaps the next Website
> release should go to 3.* and leave the DTDs behind, so that the version
> numbers no longer have the appearance of being in synch.

Here's an idea: Maybe we could integrate the Website stylesheets--
and Slides stylesheets, while we're at it -- into the standard
DocBook XSL Stylesheets distribution. That is, just make them a
part of the standard docbook-xsl releases.

The Website and Slides releases would then become DTD/schema-only
packages and we wouldn't need to deal with the versioning anomaly.

Yeah, I recognize that Website and Slides doc instances contain
elements that aren't part of standard DocBook and that the
existing docbook-xsl stylesheets currently only transform standard
DocBook doc instances. But that doesn't mean they need to stay
that way forever.

  --Mike

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