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Re: [docbook] Ruminations on the future of DocBook


At 14:55 30/05/2003 -0400, Adam Turoff wrote:

>   My question then is, would that level of semantic markup be valuable in
> usage?

Um, isn't that the whole point of DocBook?  If that level of semantic
markup (which exists today), then why aren't people marking up their
class documentation with <literal> and <emphasis>?  (Or are they?)

Pragmatic? Speed? The effort and time needed for full semantic markup with todays element set is very high. My question is simply are users getting good value for that time spent?



> I have this nasty suspicion that many... some... a few
> users, chose docbook because:
>   1. Its XML (durable)
>   2. Produces HTML and print.
> and the elements used are to [some... large..] extent chosen based on the
> output?
> I could be wrong.

I don't understand your concern.  Are you inferring that namespaced
extensions to DocBook *wouldn't* have a canonical display in HTML/Print?

Not so much a concern, simply a statement of opinion. Many of the docbook apps questions relate to how something appears from the styled output.



As a foundation vocabulary, DocBook and it's core stylesheets would
still be immensely useful: hard things like tables and chunking would
always be available via the core format.

Agreed 100%. Perhaps 'valuable' rather than available.


regards DaveP



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