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Version reference for DocBook Publishers documents?

From: Jirka Kosek <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:33:00 -0000

Dave Pawson wrote: > So Mr ignorant creates an instance of the latter. > Takes a liking to using dc:author for instance. > > Tries to validate against docbook and receives this funny error > (which says nothing about version, or dbpubs....) > What is he to make of that error? > > If some part of the processing reported that 'hey, this instance > is dbpubs, you're using docbook' then he might be wiser. It would be possible to add similar check into standard Schematron schema for DocBook -- it can report warning always when there is something special in version attribute. However I'm still not convinced it would be better then to do nothing in this case. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: [email protected] http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenPGP digital signature