On 07/06/2011 01:36 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(not strictly a docbook question but i'm interested in the opinion
of the gurus here.)
i'm perusing the semantic markup of someone who has created their
own XML language which, in all, looks fairly similar to docbook, but
this person has explicitly defined two elements -- "file-name" and
"directory-name" -- to be used for that respective markup.
i'm aware that docbook has the standard "filename" element and, as a
longtime unix/linux user, i'm well aware that directories are simply
special cases of files and i have always marked up directory names
with just <filename>.
so ... would there be any compelling reason to distinguish between
the two? i don't have access to the XSLT so i don't know if they're
really being treated differently and, visually at least, they're both
just being rendered in identical monospaced font when i generate the HTML.
How about saying it's application dependent? If the user(s) need to
differentiate
then two elements might be easier authoring than one element and one/two
attributes?
Ask the users?
No real hardship to add an element?
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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