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Re: [docbook] Future DocBook Ruminations - Modular Source Files &XInclude


Wills, Robert wrote:

Any thoughts?

No offense, but what this crap will be good for? Resulting grammar will be inconsistent and will go against all design rules for markup languages which I know. Splitting document into several files works on physical level, resulting document on logical level should be reasonable structured XML. You can gain this by using external entities and XIncludes, no additional elements needed.


If some tools have problems with external entities/XIncludes, then fix these tools. But don't touch XML sources, they should be there for many years, they are important. Tools will emerge, mature and disappear, but your documents will survive. That's the whole point of markup languages where data are the most important, not applications.

Jirka

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