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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also have no great knowledge of docbook so I guess for that reason, also
no really compelling reason to move to 5.  Just been reading material on the
docbook website which suggests 4.x is end of life.  And 5 is hardly bleeding
edge at this point.  And the fact that version 5 is namespaced and has a
relaxng schema rather than the older dtd.  Though I concede these are not
issues which bother most people.  But as long as the schema is available
there is no good reason not to be able to use either version in any xml
schema-aware editor.  In which case I would probably use 5.  Emacs, oxygen,
XMLmind and probably editx will allow you to edit valid docbook 5.0.  I
haven't really surveyed all the other tools, but if it really is awkward
then I guess we stick with 4.x for now (mind you 4.5 is the last of the 4
series, not 4.4).

Bob

2009/11/18 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>

> Agree with being practical - which probably means old-fashioned in this
> case, unless there are very compelling features in version 5. Just wanted to
> note that I personally have found XML Mind more suitable and faster than
> Serna Free, and it is good in that it readily displays the path to resources
> like images.
>
> Knut
>
> 2009/11/18 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I do not have a strong opinion about which version to use, mostly out
>>
>> of ignorance, but somewhat based on practicality. We are using a very
>> small subset (at the moment) of the total number of DocBook tags, so I
>> am not 100% about whether we need to be on the bleeding edge. My
>> recommendation of using version 4.x is based on what is available with
>> the WYSIWYG editor, Serna Free, which support version 4.2 out of the
>> box. There could be compelling reasons to use a later version of the
>> schema, but they are not apparent to me. Based on our immediate
>> requirements to have a somewhat more streamlined set of documents, the
>> editors that are practical for both geeks and those less inclined to
>> use VI for editing DocBook, it would make sense to stick with
>> something that is perhaps not bleeding edge, but practical. I think
>> the changes Jo has made to the pom are great and significantly ease
>> the building on the documentation on my side (working over an
>> incredibly bad link).
>>
>> Unless there are other reasons, I think we should tread softly, and
>> stick with what works for now.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Lars Helge Øverland
>> <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Den 18. nov. 2009 kl. 15.08 skrev Lars Helge Øverland:
>> >>
>> >> 5.0 is available:
>> >>
>> >> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.docbook/docbook-xml
>> >>
>> >> Notice the size of the binary.. 0 bytes
>> >
>> >
>> > Doh..
>> >
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