Hi,
On 28.11.22 11:10, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
currently, DocBook v5.2 (and previous versions) allows several elements as root
element. However, it is currently not possible to use info "alone". Any reasons
why?
I can see how reusing metadata might make sense in some environments. I
won’t speak for anyone else on the TC, but I tend to think of it as
being attached to something. It provides metadata for an element, and so
it’s not immediately obvious what it means sitting on its own.
It isn’t that I thought there was any reason to forbid it so much as it
never occurred to me that it would be useful.
I know, this use case may be not very common. Still I think, if you use
assemblies and share content it might become more helpful, especially when you
want (or need to) validate on its own.
Imagine you would like to share some common meta information among several
articles:
There’s obviously nothing that prevents you from doing this. You can
XInclude this metadata file into several articles and then validate
them.
It would be a very simple Relax-NG customization to allow info in the
“start” pattern then it could be validated independently.
That's true, but that wouldn't be DocBook anymore. ;) Thus validating wouldn't
work.
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Gruß/Regards
Thomas Schraitle
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