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[docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4

  • 1.  [docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4

    Posted 07-23-2004 16:44
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    Subject: [docbook] Proposal: stop shipping entity sets with DocBook V4.4


    I punt my vote to Adam Di Carlo (Hi Adam:) on this one, since he packages
    DocBook and some entities for Debian, and has a much better sense of the
    packaging issues.
    
    Cheers,
    Mark
    
    
    > I think it's time to stop shipping our own hacked sets with DocBook.
    > 
    > Pro: - one less set of entities in the world
    >      - makes the distribution smaller
    >      - fixes a recently reported bug that the mapping for hyphen
    >        is incorrect in the current sets
    >      - relies on an external standard for XML entities just like for SGML
    >        entities
    >      - means that a single set can be shared across all of a users documents
    > 
    > Con: - one more thing for the end user to install
    >      - I don't know if they're packaged yet
    >      - the system identifier will hit the net if you aren't using a catalog
    >        of some sort
    > 
    > 
    > On balance, I think the pros outweigh the cons, but I doubt that'll
    > get unanimous agreement.
    
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