I'm wondering if it would be possible to create a
docbook module that would incorporate these requests and that can be enabled ir
disabled by inidvidual users. That way we can add functionality without making
the core docbook grow unnecessarily large.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 08:27
Subject: Re: [docbook] Task Markup
(delinquent action item)
There seems to be a problem with us users fully understanding
what the developers intended when they implemented the elements already in the
DocBook DTD. Maybe it would be a good thing if, when presented with a requesrt
for a new element such as "task", a developer would present the requestor with
and example using existing elements. Maybe "Examples" could be a living
growing thing on the DocBook server that could be referenced whenever a person
can't figure out how to appropriately use existing elements for their
particular task.
No offense to the writers of the DocBook reference
guide, but there are always a huge variety of ways to use tags that cannot be
addressed in a book that has already gone to press.
Jeff
Biss
Paul Grosso wrote:
Sigh, now we're doubling the size and complexity of DocBook once again.
Where does this all stop? Or does DocBook just double every 18 months?
Can someone remind me what the real point of "task" is again?
paul
At 09:26 2003 05 20 -0400, joseph.a.gilvary@census.gov wrote:
Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> 05/20/2003 09:05 AM
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org cc: Subject: Re: [docbook] Task Markup (delinquent action item)
Wouldn't it make sense to allow for 'postconditions' ?
<snip/>
Also, 'summary' and 'prerequisites' sound like metadata. Wouldn't it make sense to group them into a 'taskinfo' element ? (and then allow other optional elements such as 'author' similar to articleinfo, sectioninfo, etc. ?)
Regards, Stefan
I'd like to voice support for these suggestions, and add that postcondition (or something in its stead) also belongs in the taskinfo element.
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