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Simplified DocBook is simply broken
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:55:53 -0400
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Simplified DocBook is simply broken
The following report arrived a day or two ago.
| Hello,
|
| The document below validates against the Simplified DocBook XML DTD
| version 1.0b2, but has multiple errors when validated against the
| DocBook XML DTD version 4.1.2.
[...]
| <article>
| <figure id = "foo">
| <title></title>
| <xref linkend="foo"></xref>
| <footnoteref linkend="foo"></footnoteref>
| </figure>
| <programlisting>
| <systemitem><systemitem></systemitem></systemitem></programlisting>
| <informaltable>
| <tgroup cols="bar">
| <colspec lang=""></colspec>
| <tbody><row><entry></entry></row></tbody>
| </tgroup>
| </informaltable>
| </article>
And it's true. Simplified DocBook is seriously broken in a couple of
ways. I'll put out a beta 3 next week that fixes these errors.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | One may be driven to commit murder
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | by love or hatred, but one can
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | only advocate murder out of sheer
| wickedness.--Italo Svevo