Re: (sgml vs XML)+indexing

["David C. Mason" <dcm redhat com>]

John Sheehan <John Sheehan ireland sun com> writes:


> Solbook is SGML based and is indeed a subset of Docbook, so it's simple to 
> convert to Docbook, but not in the opposite direction since the GDP use 
> certain inline tags which are not in SolBook. 


What 'inline' tags are you referring to that cause problems? The GDP
uses nothing outside of DocBook. The only problem you would have is
that you would not have 'well marked up' docs which takes a small
amount of human-eye-time to solve. If you do not invest the time we
still have a large amount of documents that will work just fine in
terms of display, but still need some extra content markup... unless
there are structural elements you are not using.

By the way, you do realize that Mr. DocBook (Norman Walsh) is now an
employee of Sun working on... DocBook? Perhaps it would be good to get
opinions from him on some of these issues.


Cheers,

Dave
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David Mason
Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
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