From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-07-10T07:11:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ruby-libxml (2002-07-09)...

Sean Chittenden wrote:


>>what's to be implemented for DocBook?
>>
> Honestly, I'm not 100% sure yet.  libxml's huge and there's lots
> there.  I'm still uncovering features and nifty ways of doing things.
> My best guess is that it's basically a Schema/DTD for the DocBook
> markup (ie, won't let you write a bad/invalid docbook document).


Well, there are various DTDs for DocBook; authors want to choose one, 
and switch it independently from the kit. I don't think it should be an 
integrated part of an XML parser or toolkit, if this doesn't offer any 
advantages over simply using a DTD which didn't come with the XML kit.


Tobi

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