Version reference for DocBook Publishers documents?

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Jirka Kosek <>
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2011-02-08T13:16:00+00:00
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Version reference for DocBook Publishers documents?
Dave Pawson wrote:
> I've always expected the version to be numeric Scott?  That was never case with DocBook 5. See
http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#cust-naming
http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch05.html#s-notdocbook
> For which TDG is clear. "Don't call it docbook"
> Bit late now, but renaming the document element
> to x-pubs, where x is book/article/... perhaps?  Why to rename root element, it doesn't make sense.
> Or simpler, just give it a clear / different name,
> then use docbook ns etc?  I think it is enough to call it DocBook Publishers or something like that and add version="5.0-variant publishers-1.0" to root element.  (variant is better then extension, because some elements were removed)  			Jirka  --

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