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Subject: DOCBOOK: Exchange or Full CALS Table Model?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Years ago, the DocBook TC decided that in DocBook V5, the Exchange Table Model[1] rather than full CALS[2] would be supported. This decision was made at a time when there were several competing authoring applications that purported to support a subset of CALS. The Exchange Table Model was developed to document the subset that nearly all the vendors supported. It's been a long time since I heard anyone discussing CALS support as a distinguishing criterion between applications. Certainly, I can't remember anyone asking about it in years. I now wonder if there's any value to be had from adopting the exchange model. AFAICT, it would introduce backwards incompatibilities, remove some features that people probably use (like spanspec), and provide no obvious benefits. On the flip side, I think the XSL stylesheets only really support the exchange model (just because I was being forward looking for XML, not because I think the full model can't be supported), and few people have complained. Does anyone feel strongly that the exchange model is the way to go? That full CALS is the way to go? (For the moment, let's keep this thread separate from the HTML tables thread, which is certainly related.) Be seeing you, norm [1] http://oasis-open.org/specs/tr9503.html [2] http://oasis-open.org/specs/a502.htm - -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The most violent element in http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | society is ignorance.--Emma Goldman Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+C5YzOyltUcwYWjsRAtsEAJ45g6fFmIT3HiJ/+wHRnGg08gf8WgCfXAAX t90yS+gY4FyrWd6y5FbzK0g= =d/dE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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