On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:34:52PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Jorge" == Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jorge> Karl, you didn't understand me. I was asking the difference of > Jorge> having 20 direcotries in the /usr/share/sgml and in > Jorge> /usr/share/sgml/dtds. > > Currently, I have a single directrory. /usr/lib/sgml.dtd (soon to > become /usr/share/sgml/dtd/) with 61 DTD's in there. I have > html. xhtml. docbook (several versions) debiandoc, and linuxdoc stuff > in there. > > Andthis machine does not have all my XML based DTD's that I am > rapidly having to use.
And wouldn't be easier to find these and their stylesheets if they were in separate directories? > Jorge> I don't think that it will be too crowded because there'll be no need > Jorge> to use lots of DTDs. Suppose that you use 20 different DTDs and 5 or 6 > Jorge> stylesheets. It will be less than 30 directories there. And I don't > Jorge> know anybody who uses 20 DTDs with enough frequence!! That's too > Jorge> much. > > And, of course, no one needs more than 640Kb Memory either > ;-) No, but I don't see everyone out there using SGI clusters... > Are we looking for a standard for docbook, or is this supposed > to be a general SGML/XML standard? The general standard is the better option. > I think we should not be that short sighted when creating a > standard that is supposed to have a half life or more than a few > months. If the standard is not designed to accomodate several hundred > DTD's, it is not going to be adopted. Again, what's easier to maintain: hundreds of files which may be DTDs, stylesheets and catalogs or hundreds of directories which conatins each DTD and it's stylesheets with a specific catalog? I'd rather be on a system with the last one. -- Godoy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Setor de Publicações Publishing Department Conectiva S.A.
