Hello DocBook folks,
We are long time DocBook users, but I've been out of the
development for
some time. It's nice to see that you are looking at moving
DocBook V4.5
to OASIS Standard, as it's been a long time since an
update.
After all of the hype of DITA, we are still looking for a
good
publishing oriented DTD/schema. Although we may also use
DITA to store
and manage data, I still think there is a lot of relevance
for DocBook
for output, and for many situations also for input. I really
like a lot
of what is happening in DocBook 5.x. I've been working with
5.0b5, and
am very impressed.
We are building an internal application and want to migrate
to a newer
version of DocBook (currently at V4.1.2 of the XML DTD). We
can be quite
flexible with our data, and want to use DocBook and
associated apps
"out-of-the-box" as much as possible. Due to
some of the
"backwards-incompatible" changes for 5.x, I
think that because we are
doing a total rebuild, I would rather do it in 5.x. So far
in testing,
the db4-upgrade.xsl conversion of legacy documents from
DocBook 4.x to
DocBook V5.0 seems to be working well.
Constraints:
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We are doing this migration stepwise, because we need to
support both
XML DTD and W3C XML Schema. In future we may look to RELAX
NG support,
but other integrated apps do not support it enough at this
time. We also
need W3C MathML 2.0 and are using DocBook XSLT (1.70.0). We
also hope to
use the DITA OpenToolkit to DocBook.
Questions:
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1) In a general view, would you recommend jumping into 5.x
now? I
realise that the DTD/Schema versions are "not
normative". How "not
normative" are they -- scale of 1 (being MSXML) to 5
(being a strong
parser)?
2) Is it reasonable to think we can integrate W3C MathML 2.0
DTD with
DocBook 5.x? I have some problems with
"XLINK.prefix" and would rather
know if it is "doable" before I dive in. BTW, it
would not be a bad idea
to include in the documentation "Extending the DocBook
DTD with the
MathML DTD".
Many thanks for reading this long message. I hope my time
away from
DocBook has not rendered me totally clueless (apologies in
advance
Kind regards,
Ellyn Larson
Portalyx, The Netherlands
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