Re: Successor to DocBook

[Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>]

Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> writes:

> I had originally intended to make a topic-oriented format that
> used DocBook as its within-the-page content model.  Use the same
> block and inline elements, etc.  Years of working with DocBook,
> both as a writer and an implementor, have convinced me that this
> will cause more harm than good.

I think different.  Just eliminate all elements you do not need and
avoid the nesting of block elements.  Why forcing the writer to learn
new tag names?  It would also be nice if you could process the topic
oriented documentation files with existing tools.

Otherwise DITA already exists.  Maybe, a DITA subset would do the trick?

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Karl Eichwalder
R&D / Documentation                         SUSE Linux Products GmbH

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