wrote:
> Are backwards-incompatible changes really that destructive? Nobody
> forces anyone to upgrade their documents. One can easily install
> multiple versions of DocBook schemas in parallel. In contrast,
> maintaining multiple versions of stylesheets (to customize) is a pain.
Agreed, if you do it knowingly.
It's doing it without realising that *can* be a pain.
Even then only if you happen to use a feature lost/changed in the upgrade.
>
> It seems to me that the real issue, rather than incompatible schema
> changes, concerns long-term support commitments to docbook constructs
> in the stylesheets.
Equally possible.
>
> Thus, allow DocBook to move along at a reasonable pace, but commit to
> supporting DocBook constructs in the stylesheets for some time after
> they are phased out or changed.
I don't think that's even up for discussion is it?
The stylesheets aren't part of the Oasis spec.
>
> (However, this may occasionally require explicit triggering of
> old-style behavior through stylesheet parameters etc...)
And even more of a headache for Bob!
regards
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Dave Pawson
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