Re: DocBook

[Simon Pepping <spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:42:53PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Hans Hagen writes:
> > starting from a subset is doable; is there such a subset known? a quick 
> > look into the oreilly's docbook book shows a lot of (probably never used) 
> > stuff,
> 
> There is.
> 
> docbook-xml-simple - Simplified DocBook XML Doctype and css stylesheets.
> 
> This is a small subset of the DocBook XML DTD. It has ~100 elements, rather
> than the >300 elements in the full DocBook DTD. A good choice when full
> DocBook is overkill.
> 
> Author:   Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
> Homepage: http://nwalsh.com/docbook/simple/
> 
> The Simplified DocBook DTD is identified with: 
> 
> - The public identifier: "-//OASIS//DTD Simplified DocBook XML
>   V4.1.2.5//EN", and 
> - The system identifier:
>   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/4.1.2.5/sdocbook.dtd" 
> 
> It is composed of 106 elements, 525 entities, and 26 notations. 
> 
> - 106 elements 
> - 525 entities 
> - 302 parameter entities 
> - 223 general entities 
> - 26 notations 
> 
> It claims to be an XML DTD. Element and notation names are case
> sensitive. Entity names are case sensitive.

That is a good suggestion. I think this subset is also recommended to
HOWTO authors.

Simon

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