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<title>DocBook NG: The “Gin” Release</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/11/gin</biblioid>
<volumenum>7</volumenum>
<issuenum>199</issuenum>
<pubdate>2004-11-11T11:03:36-08:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2004</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>A few minor changes, motivated in part by some documentation
experiments that I've been doing.</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#DocBook"/>
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<para xml:id="p1">This is <link xlink:href="/threads/refactorDocBook">the seventh</link>
release of <link xlink:href="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng/">DocBook NG</link>.
</para>

<para xml:id="p2">This release has just a few minor changes.</para>

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<listitem>
<para xml:id="p3">An <tag>attribution</tag> can have multiple
<tag>personname</tag>s. And text, which may be a mistake, I'm
not sure.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="p4">I added a <tag class="attribute">language</tag> attribute
to <tag>funcsynopsis</tag>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="p5">I added a <tag class="attribute">namespace</tag> attribute
to <tag>tag</tag>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para xml:id="p6">It uses the
<link xlink:href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/compatibility.html">RELAX NG DTD Compatibility</link> annotations to provide default values for
the <tag class="attribute">xlink:type</tag> attributes.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para xml:id="p7">My principal motivation was to add the
<tag class="attribute">language</tag> attribute to the
<tag>funcsynopsis</tag> element for some tinkering that I've been
doing.</para>

<para xml:id="p8">Martini, anyone?</para>

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