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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > I'm beginning to notice this as one of the fundamental confusions. > There is no problem here. Each namespace has (or may have) its own > RDDL document. A RDDL document describes a *namespace*. A RDDL > document does not describe a *document*. There is not, nor was there > ever intended to be, one canonical RDDL document for any given > document. While I agree that this is what RDDL is designed to solve, I think that what Nicolas is asking for -- a document describing a given doctype -- is much more useful. RDDL is like handing the end user of a TV set a bunch of different manuals describing switches, CRTs, integrated circuits, and electric cords. While a user can figure out how to turn on the TV set and adjust the volume from these manuals, it is unlikely they will do so. In documentation terms, RDDL is a reference manual and only low-level people (e.g. TV repairmen) want reference manuals. Everybody else wants a user's guide. -- Ron
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