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Re: DAVENPORT: Announce: Extended DocBook Synopses v1.0

| |       The <classsynopsis/> allows an <interface/>
| |       element for the class, but the docbook 3.0 reference says that
| |       should be used for refering to components of a GUI.  I want to
| 
| Oh, barf! I hadn't noticed that name collision. Drat and blast!
| I don't know what to do about that. I know what I'd like to do,
| subvert Interface and steal it for this new purpose. Given that
| it's losing it's class attribute in 4.0 and getting a
| drastically simplified content model, we might just pull that
| off.

Um, please no.  Perhaps we should in the fullness of time change
the present interface to gui or something.  But if the present
interface is for /Graphical User/ Interface, what is the qualifier
for interface in the context now under discussion?  /OO/ Interface?

regards, Terry
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