[publican-list] Different approach to banning tags and attributes

[Lana Brindley]

Jeff Fearn wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I have been thinking about the approach taken to banning tags and 
> attributes and think I have a better way of doing this that the current 
> process.
> 
> I'm thinking that making our own DTD that is a subset of the DocBook DTD 
> would be a better approach. This would allow people using validating 
> editors, like Kate and Emacs, to limit what tags and attributes they are 
> using when writing documents, instead of having to wait until they try 
> to build them.
> 
> Making it a subset ensures that publican based books can build in any 
> other DocBook tool chain.
> 
> Doing this is actually pretty easy to do, see 
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html
> 
> Here is an example of a DTD which removes the olink tag, but supports 
> everything else in the DocBook 4.5 DTD:
> 
> --- START DTD ----
> 
> <!ENTITY % olink.module "IGNORE">
> 
> <!ENTITY % orig-docbook PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" 
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
> %orig-docbook;
> 
> --- END DTD ---
> 
> It gets a little more complicated to remove attributes from a tag and 
> keep the tag, but it's not greatly complex.
> 
> It's possibly we could switch DTDs on either a brand or per book basis 
> as well, just in case a brand wanted to support those tags we don't want 
> to support.
> 
> Discuss!
> 
> Cheers, Jeff.
> 

+1

Signed,
a Kate user :)

L
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