Re: [docbook-tc] Are the Schematron assertions normative in 5.0?

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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] Are the Schematron assertions normative in 5.0?




From: Norman Walsh <>
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:45:01 -0400






/ Jirka Kosek <> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|
|> | Then it makes sense to make Schematron normative, because these constraints are
|> | not expressed in a prose.
|> Oh, I think we must express them in the prose documentation as well.
|
| And by the prose documentation you mean text of OASIS specification or TDG? If
| the TDG, what will be the formal relation between DocBook V5.0 OASIS
| specification and TDG then? I'm just trying to figure out how this will fit into
| OASIS process.

Historically, TDG has been the official reference documentation for
DocBook. I expect that to continue to be the case. (I think this means
we can't get 5.0 to Standard until we finish updating the book.)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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                                   | allotted.--Robert Louis Stevenson