On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Edward Z. Yang
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>  The DocBook mentions some disadvantages of XIncludes: [1]
>
>  - XInclude can only have one root, parsed entities can have multiple
>  elements (I don't think this is a problem with PHPDoc)

I've already fixed those problems, at least most of them, when we moved to DB5

>  - An XIncluded document with an IDREF that crosses document boundaries
>  still won't be valid.

Why?
XIncludes are to XML what macros are to C... well, kinda. Almost. No,
not really.
My point is: XIncludes are processed long before validation.


>  I presume we'll still use entities for text-level inclusions, so we'll
>  still need to define a custom Doctype for PHPDoc.

Probably, yes. Not necessarily though.

-Hannes

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