From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK: Modularity and PE reorganization
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:44:28 -0400
I spent some time this weekend with several hundred little slips of
paper[1] making a stab at a more logical set of parameter entities (or
at least, of classes) for DocBook.
Wouldn't using physical tokens, for each element, imply that they can only
belong to one class or module? Certainly, where multiple interpretations of
a term exist (e.g. "module", "class", "package", etc.), some duplication is
acceptable and should even be encouraged. Using separate namespaces (if
possible) for each module would help disambiguate collisions (for purposes
of authoring, documenting, and processing, actually).