Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] DocBook and OMF

[Eric B. <e.b...@no...>]

Le Friday 27 April 2001 19:03, Norman Walsh a =E9crit :
> [I'm not sure what list this best belongs on. Forward at will.]
>
> In looking at OMF and the existing DocBook metadata, I observe that
> there are some conflicts (title in OMF doesn't have the same content
> model as the DocBook title element, person uses "firstName/lastName"
> where DocBook would use "firstname/surname", etc.).
>
> So the first question I have is, which is more appealing to the
> community developing OFM tools: getting OMF support into DocBook by
> way of elements in a separate namespace

The advantages of namespaces is modularity (avoiding DocBook to get bloat=
ed).=20
But as it has been said here, there might be validation problems.

> or by getting a joint
> OMF/DocBook TC task force to harmonize things so that the OMF elements
> would go directly into DocBook?

Of course this would remove the semantic conflicts in a much stronger way.

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