[Scrollkeeper-devel] strange DTD changes

[Martijn v. B. <ma...@ee...>]

Hi,

I was updating my db2omf.xsl stylesheet, (the old version is at
gnome-docu/gdp/tools/db2omf.xsl if anyone wants to add it to
the 'other resources' section of the omf file manual) when I
noticed that the current DTD doesn't really deserve the
term 'scrollkeeper OMF variant', since it isn't a variant, but
a completely different beast.

The initial check-in changelog entry says:

        * extract/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd: Adding this file from 
	  Eric Baudais <ba...@ok...>.  It is the OMF DTD
	  with a few ScrollKeeper-specific variations.
 	  Eventually we will feed these upstream.

But these are hardly 'a few variations'

instead of:

<creator>
	<person>
		<firstName>Martijn</firstName>
		<lastName>van Beers</lastName>
		<email>lo...@us...</email>
	</person>
</creator>

according to the docs, one now has to do:
<creator>
	lo...@us... (Martijn van Beers)
</creator>

which begs the question why use xml at all anymore when you really seem
to be wanting to parse all the relevant information out of a simple
string anyway.

I've looked through the scrollkeeper-devel and gnome-doc-list archives,
but I haven't been able to find any discussion that might explain these
very odd changes. Please enlighten me,


Martijn