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Eve L. Maler wrote: > > Yes, I'll try to do this. The loosey-goosey model in XMLspec has caused > stylesheet writers no end of grief, so maybe I can come up with the > equivalent of the old FuncSynopsis FuncPrototype solution and then slip it > into XMLspec at the next major revision. That'd be goodness indeed. > > BTW, the wide availability of XSLT engines takes the sting out of backwards > incompatibility! You can always distribute a stylesheet with an > incompatible DTD. Perhaps we might want to consider easing up on the > DocBook revision schedule requirements. That's only applicable in a pure XML environment -- I would recommend strongly against this until we're at version 5.0 Eduardo > > Eve > > At 08:29 PM 3/2/00 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > >Eve, > > > >At the San Jose DocBook meeting, we briefly discussed adding > >EBNF markup to DocBook. It's not an uncommon request, but no > >proposal has been made. > > > >With the growing use of the XML Spec DTD, it would seem a bit > >strange to add something to DocBook that was very different from > >that DTD, but that markup seems a little loose and tricky to > >process. > > > >Could you easily construct a proposal by starting with the XML > >Spec model and fixing it ? :-) > > -- > Eve Maler Sun Microsystems > elm @ east.sun.com +1 781 442 3190