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Version reference for DocBook Publishers documents?

From: David Pawson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:29:00 -0000

On 8 February 2011 16:18, Jirka Kosek <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Pawson wrote: >> I'd like these to be clearly identified, somehow, to the user. > > You can: > > 1) manually assign schema > 2) change name of root element > 3) change namespace of elements > 4) use version attribute > > Options 2) and 3) breaks existing toolchains, so they are no go. > > Option 1) doesn't universally work, because people might use different > schemas (RELAX NG vs. XSD) caused by limitations in tools used. > > Option 4) seems as an optimal solution -- it doesn't break anything but > can be used to locate appropriate schema. And still won't let the un-enlightened user know? Nothing in the validation says 'this is docbook and you're using dbpubs', or vice versa? To me that's something worthwhile doing. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk