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[Larry Rowland]

1. We agreed to outputformat being optional, and I have modified the schema to reflect that, I just haven't finished the other modifications. 2. I did not, but I came into this part way into the process and that decision had already been made. Not sure whether Scott and the others did. The indirection is valuable in some cases, but I don't have any feel for whether it should be required. The only hesitation in removing it is the "well this is just a simple book" decision turning into "now its part of a massive set of books and help systems and we are moving to a source control system" and having to recode the book to make up for the change, with all the chances for errors that come up in that type of recoding. The number of times I've ended up doing that is, of course, not the issue, but it does make me cautious about such decisions now (we all, of course, are perfect in our foresight and planning). I guess the real question is: why go to modular DocBook for a simple book, why not just use a simple book. If you are planning for reuse, it is probably better to bite the bullet and set up the resources so you have the indirection when you need it. LRR