Re: [Refdb-users] RisX import

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 04:00  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

>> Also, consider that two high-profile xml efforts -- DocBook and
>> OpenOffice -- are moving to Relax NG as their canonical coding 
>> schemas.
>
> This is yet another chicken-and-egg problem. Relax NG will not be
> widely accepted unless you've got tools that support it.

This is a bit of a red herring though.  It is true that there is little 
support for RNG yet in XML editors, but this is not much of an issue 
when you consider that Trang allows for reliable conversion to DTDs and 
XML Schema, both of which are supported in editors.  And editor support 
will come in time.

The reason people are migrating development to RNG is precisely this 
power and flexibility.  DocBook in the future will be written in RNG, 
but this certainly does not mean they won't be releasing DTD versions 
of it.  Likewise with Open Office. Word supports import of arbitrary 
XML, but only if defined against a Schema; likewise almost surely to be 
the case with the next major version of OOo.

The way I see it, RNG is to DTDs what XML is to HTML: a reliable 
long-term investment that still allows you to work with the world as it 
currently exists.

Bruce