On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:43:46PM +0200, Chris Karakas wrote: > > > > Jose and Andreas, > > it is not that simple! The underscore may very well be allowed in the value of an ID > attribute, at least in SGML! This quite tricky subject is dealt in: > > character "_" not allowed in value of attribute ID > http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=872
I hope you are not suggesting to change the DocBook SGML Declaration? At least because of a small detail like this. Also if lyx deals with all the references there is no problem as it will be always consistent. > I suggest to leave validation to validating parsers, or, if you want to > validate, then use an external one, don't try to reinvent the wheel. SGML > can be quite tricky at this - and that was a reason that led to XML, namely > that parsing SGML can be a challenge to program. As Andreas mentioned it is a question of producing legal code, we use the same trick for latex, for identical reasons. > -- > Regards > > Chris Karakas > http://www.karakas-online.de > -- José Abílio Matos LyX and docbook a perfect match. :-)
