On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
> Obvious question but why not use DocBook for all of this rather than write
> a whole new XML format? Converters already exist for most normal hardcopy
> formats.
all right I haven't looked at docbook very recently but we did
think about this when we were doing the SGML project. The short
answer is, docbook is very large and has a lot of features we
don't need, and it lacks some features that we do need.
and I wanted to write some XSLT.
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