Thank you for your response, Mike!
I'd like to encourage you to check out the DocBook Publishers schema
that we have created to address this very issue!
Specification Source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.xml
Specification PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.pdf
Specification HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.html
RelaxNG Schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/rng/publishers/publishers.rnc
Please let me know if there is anything that you feel is still missing!
Best regards,
Scott Hudson
Chair, DocBook Publishers subcommittee
maxwell wrote:
>
> I'll take this opportunity to say that one of the things that seems odd to
> me about DocBook is that it is targeted so explicitly at computer
> documentation. Many of its tags make no sense outside that context. So we
> have modified the schema not just by adding elements for linguistics and
> literate programming, but by removing many of the tags that are blatantly
> irrelevant. Computer documentation is the sort of thing that will, in most
> cases, go out of date soon; and for that purpose, maybe Pilgrim is right
> that HTML makes sense. But there are plenty of domains for which people
> write books that don't go out of date (ranging from poetry to archaeology),
> and for which DocBook might make more sense to people if it didn't seem so
> much like a geek's view of the world. My 2/100 of a dollar...
>
> Mike Maxwell
> CASL/ U MD
>
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