Re: FYI - element ignore/unignore feature request

Michael Smith <[email protected]> writes:

Is PSGML mode currently being maintained?

> This is just an FYI regarding a PSGML feature request I filed a few days
> back. Just wondering whether others might think it'd be a useful feature.
>
>   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=757878&group_id=9156&atid=359156
>
> In a nutshell, the request is to provide a means for the PSGML interface
> to 'ignore' certain valid elements even when editing against a particular DTD.
>
> This would amount to supressing elements from the Markup>Insert Element
> menu and from the sgml-insert-element (C-c C-e) set of completions.
>
> Rationale...
>
> The sole rationale behind this enhancement would be to reduce the number
> and kinds elements that authors need to choose from when editing against
> large DTDs (such as TEI and DocBook).
>
> Without such a mechanism, doc authors and authoring groups need to do
> DTD customization to eliminate the elements they don't have any use for.
>
> But it seems like it would be  much more efficient and easily
> user-customizable to meet this reduce-the-set-of-elements-I-see
> requirement by providing an 'ignore' capability at the editing
> application layer level instead of at the DTD level.
>
> Background...
>
> There has been much talk in the DocBook community recently about
> modularizing the DocBook DTD/schema into logical sets of elements. I
> could be wrong, but as far as I can see, the main value that most people
> suggesting that seem to have in mind is to make DocBook authoring easier
> by giving authors and authoring groups the capability to omit sets of
> elements for which they have no use.
>
> I could see making changes at the DTD/schema level if the requirement
> were driven by concerns about validating or processing documents, not
> just authoring concerns. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> So this proposed 'ignore' mechanism would provide a simple way just to
> solve the ease-of-authoring need.
>
>   --Mike

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Thanks,
Jeff
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