Re: (sgml vs XML)+indexing

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

John Sheehan <John Sheehan ireland sun com> writes:

> Yes there are structural differences. For example, SolBook does not 
> support articles.  We want to be able to easily flip between DocBook and 
> SolBook by means of filters/scripts rather than by modifying by hand.  
> Three examples of why this is useful for us:


It is nearly impossible to create a script that will convert one DTD
with few content based tags into one with many content based tags. It
takes a pair of human eyes to determine that 'foo' is a <filename> in
any particular document. 

If you are just missing structural markup you can easily create a
script but never content elements. Many have tried - but those many
just don't 'get it' in my opinion :)


Cheers,

Dave
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David Mason
Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
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