more defined process

[Mark Johnson]

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 00:38, Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> Mark, I'd be more supportive of attribute based selection,
> rather than conditional sections? Then filter based on stylesheet
> parameters as Tammy suggested?

Yep, me too. Putting true conditional sections in a DTD 
customization layer would be a major PITA, and would require us to 
change the DocBook FPI.

Time to move to the XML method of attribute-based content selection. 
And, yes, the stylesheets are where all the filtering occurs.

> Especially since the current DTD may well be the last for docbook?

Yes, but the proposed RELAX-NG design would allow one to easily 
generate DTDs (even customized ones) from the customized RELAX-NG 
schema. One difficulty there, though, is that the generated DTD will 
not be customizable, i.e. it won't contain any paramter entities.

> A move to relax NG would make any development work here redundant?

Not sure I understand your question, Dave, but I suspect the answer 
is yes:)


Cheers,
Mark
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