[whatwg] X/HTML5 and DocBook
David Latapie
david at empyree.org
Sun Feb 25 04:36:29 PST 2007
Hello,
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:26:01 +0000, Martin Atkins wrote:
> I believe the "Simplified DocBook" DTD was invented to address the
> concern that DocBook was too complicated. I've seen Simplified
> DocBook as an attempt to get an "HTML-like" simplicity while
> retaining the powerful structured nature of DocBook documents.
>
> HTML5 comes at this from the other perspective, to a certain extent:
> while Simplified DocBook scaled down DocBook to be more like HTML,
> HTML5 adds structure elements to HTML to make it a bit more like
> DocBook in many respects.
>
> Of course, that's not all HTML5 does. Many of HTML5's new features
> are not for "documents" at all, but rather for web applications.
Thank you for this precious information. I later considered that my
questionning would be better comparing *XHTML2* vs.
(simplified)DocBook/xml, XHTML2 being more document-oriented than
X/HTML5 is.
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