Hi John, Am 26.02.2011 um 00:22 schrieb John Redmond:
Reply to Keith Schultz:
Starting near the end of your response, Keith:
3. Given that we share a primary interest in books (text), it makes sense that the XML should conform to the XHTML doctype. WHY? For example epub does require any adherence to the XHTML, Just to XML version 1.0 !!!
Wrong. XHTML IS specified! Besides HTML is a backwater and the W3C would like it to disappear. XHMTL is mention (specified), but not a requirement. Read the specification!
2. Easy! Express your markup scheme in terms of XML! XML is not a particular mark scheme. You write the "scheme" in XML. Though term scheme is used differently in XML.
But XHTML _IS_ XML, specialised for text, so why not use it. You are not getting my point. Does not matter.
4. For that matter using any other markup an XSLT can be used to get to XHMTL.
I think that you are agreeing with me. And note that one option is to back-convert to prettified text, or even zml. And the XML can be used to generate other content, like a TOC and endnotes.
I do not see the point in using a master format and then converting to to a another format that is not one of a intended reader device! regards Keith.