[docbook] DocBook NG (was: DocBook NG and <biblioref>)

[Oliver Horn <oliver dot horn at gmx dot net>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

> / Oliver Horn <oliver.horn@gmx.net> was heard to say:
> | I was just wondering that DocBook NG (Cachaça Release) supports
> | <biblioref> but does not allow it inside <citation>?
>
> That's bug.
>  

That's good to know :-).

> | PS: Is the docbook-list the right place to discuss DocBook NG?
>
> Yes.  

Well then... I've encountered one more bug ("Drambuie"):

- db.html.coreattrs do not define an @id attribute.

 I think that's definitely a bug.  Consequences are e.g. that's not
 possible to reference formal HTML tables (<table> with <caption>)
 via <xref> since they are not allowed to take an @id attribute. :-(

The following are just some impressions and suggestions that come to
my mind in the last few days:

- Update HTML elements to reflect XHTML 1.1 [1], i.e. replace @lang with
 @xml:lang.  It is confusing to use @xml:lang with DbNG and @lang with
 HTML elements.
 Furthermore, I'm not sure if @dir is needed.  For me, it makes no sense
 that just a couple of elements supports a bidi-text attribute.

- Content models of <replaceable> and <remark> are too restricted.  For
 instance, I would like to use <sub/superscript> inside <replaceable>
 and inline link elements inside <remark>.

- The recently released XHTML 2 WD [2] just reminded me that there was
 some work on a universal @xml:id attribute [3].  But ok, both are
 drafts.

Best Regards,
Oliver

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml11-20010531/changes.html
[2] 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/mod-attribute-collections.html#s_attribute-collectionsmodule_issue_0
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-id-20040407/