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Re: Re: external programlistings
/ Dave Makower <davemak@iclick.com> was heard to say:
| Is what I am doing -- including a source code listing from a separate
| file -- so anathema to structured document authoring that years
| should go by with the only solutions being (a) a hack and (b) an
| external tool? Why was such functionality eschewed from
| XML/XSL/DocBook?
|
| (These are not meant to be rhetorical or facetious questions. I'm a
| software developer, not a trained technical writer or structured
| documentation expert, and I seek to gain a better understanding of
| the school of thought that produced these technologies.)
IMHO only:
- It doesn't belong in XML, it's an application issue
- It belongs in XSL, but it didn't make it into 1.0.
- We've always been hesitant to add it to DocBook because it appears
that XLink would provide the same functionality.
With respect to my comment that <inlinegraphic format="linespecific">
is a hack, over time I've decided that my comment was a bit flip.
Be seeing you,
norm
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