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Re: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobjecttoinsert external files
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa at gmx dot net>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:25:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobjecttoinsert external files
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- References: <87lmhcvt18.fsf@nwalsh.com> <shzo54oig0.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>
Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> This looks unclean, sorry. Why can't users use CDATA marked sections?
Because they need fresh and actual copy of some external file (eg.
program source) in a document.
> Who cannot use CDATA (or RCDATA) marked sections should stay with the
> old hack, provided by the stylesheets.
Old hack is quite hack and doesn't allow you to specify encoding of
external file. This is problem for some of us.
> Please, don't clutter the DocBook DTD too much ;-)
Look at TEI. Then DocBook will look as simple as 1+1=2. ;-))
Jirka
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