Re: debiandoc-sgml vs. docbook

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu>]

On 29 Nov 1998, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 
> Figures, tables, indexes, oh my!
> 
> Why aren't people considering the redefinition of debiandoc as a
> meta-DTD, as a formal architecture.  Then you can use debiandoc-sgml
> and we can improve it incrementally or whatever, and we could also
> have docbook that has all these features already?
> 

If DocBook meets all our needs, why bother with the meta-DTD business?
Just use DocBook.

If DocBook doesn't, then we still have to improve DebianDoc even if we do
have the meta-DTD.

So either way there's no point in having a meta-DTD. No? :-)

Havoc