DocBook for Subcommittee Publishers: Call of Pain Points

Hello,

The OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers[1] has
recently agreed
on a (provisional) minimal set of DocBook elements required
for
Publishers[2] and is now seeking input from Publishers to
identify
general publishing needs not currently met by DocBook. If
you're a
Publisher feeling overly constrained or underserved by
DocBook, this
is your chance to have your voice heard! We're interested in
ways in
which DocBook isn't properly suiting your semantic needs,
metadata
requirements, or compilation demands (or anything else I
haven't
covered).

Please feel free to contact me directly either at this email
or
keithoreilly.com to share your thoughts.

Thanks,
Keith

Background

For more than a decade, DocBook has provided a structured
markup
vocabulary for hardware and software documentation. DocBook
is now
widely used in both commercial and Open Source environments.
DocBook
has a very broad element set, and applies to much more than
just
technical documentation. The DocBook TC is engaged in
evolving the
suite of DocBook specifications. The community benefits from
having a
standard, open, interchangeable vocabulary in which to
write
structured content. DocBook has been, and will continue to
be,
designed to satisfy this requirement.

The OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers is chartered
to develop
and maintain official variants of DocBook in support of the
publishing
industry. Specifically, the subcommittee will focus on
schema and
stylesheet customizations to support: periodicals as
regularly
published technical notes or journals, book publishing (such
as
business, legal, medical, and other non-technical domains),
educational textbooks and other document types as
appropriate for this
industry.


1. http://wiki.
docbook.org/topic/Publishers
2. http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/PublishersMinimalElements

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Wow, what a totally ridiculous Subject line... guess I
should read
those over as well as the body...

Subject: DocBook Subcommittee for Publishers: Call for Pain
Points

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