[RFC] dumping the CED in favor of local variables

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:48 -0700, tuxxer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 16:50 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> < ... snip ... >
> > 
> > You put one of these at the bottom of each XML file:
> > 
> > <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
> > Local variables:
> > mode: xml
> > xml-parent-document:("parent-file.xml" "book" "chapter")
> > End:
> > -->
> > 
> > The small pain of converting our docs will be more than made up for in
> > the not-so-long run.
> 
> The guidance I've received thus far has leaned towards creating a
> single, monolithic document, where possible and practical.  I have made
> more of an effort to keep my (single-author) documents this way.  Will
> this change really make a difference if you're writing a single file?
> Is it even applicable?

It won't make any difference for single-file tutorials.  Writers working
on one of those can just hit C-c C-p (if using Emacs) to parse the DTD
after loading the document.  No muss, no fuss.

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