RE: [docbook-apps] [QUESTION] Generating XHTML 1.1 from docbook-xsl

Please consider that there might be other consumers besides web browsers.

XHTML 1.1 (and even more so XHTML 2.0) is a great exchange format for mixing content from different sources (there is a world outside DocBook) -- before a final transformation to whatever delivery format is appropriate.

kind regards
Peter Ring


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:]
> Sent: 20. december 2006 11:06
> To: Bob Stayton
> Cc: Kevin Ruscoe; 
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] [QUESTION] Generating XHTML 1.1 
> from docbook-xsl
> 
> 
> Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > I think setting a parameter for XHTML 1.1 might be a good thing, and
> > would make a fine feature request.  But feature requests 
> made on this
> > mailing list get forgotten, so I would suggest you request it in the
> > SourceForge project for DocBook.  Select Submit New on this page:
> 
> The question is whether it is worth to spend time implementing support
> for XHTML 1.1 when major browser doesn't support it without 
> resorting to
> ugly hacks and, pragmatically, there is nothing in XHTML 1.1 what
> couldn't be done in XHTML 1.0/HTML 4.01 except Ruby which is neither
> supported by DocBook.
> 
> 				Jirka
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