Re: Canonical DocBook

David Cramer <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:23:51 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.text.docbook.apps
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/27/22 1:18 PM, Frank Steimke wrote:
>
> /No block Elements within para/
>
> That's in my 80% because neither ODF nor OOXML do allow tables or 
> lists in paragraphs. I would see a great benefit when the DocBook 
> based structural interchange format would allow easy transformation 
> into office Standards, especially ODF.
>
You potentially lose information by doing that. For example, when 
normalizing, profiling and other attributes on the enclosing table would 
need to be copied to the paras you create before and after the table or 
list and onto the table or list itself as well. But doing so might 
change the author's intent in subtle ways depending on what job those 
attributes are doing.

I guess this is Norm's point about everybody having a different 80%.

Regards,

David