Re: [docbook] Re: DocBook Annotations

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

John L. Clark wrote:

> I know this ground has been covered before, but I still think an
> attribute is more appropriate for this type of annotation.  I think the

Unfortunately this is not an option due I18N issues. Even if you know 
that you don't want to explicitly structure annotation content anymore 
you might be forced to use I18N markup like Ruby annotations or bi-di 
markup. For this reason it is not considered as a good design to allow 
free-text in attributes. You should store such content inside elements 
and attributes should be used only for values for which you have 
codelists or for values that or of some well-constrained type like 
number, date, zip code.

				Jirka

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