Add <endorsement> to <info>

[peterfleck]

Add <endorsement> to <info> and have <attribution> child for the person or organization giving the endorsement.

[rlhamilton]

Hi Peter,

Can you give us some more information on the kinds of things that you see this element being used for (endorsement can be pretty broad)? Also, if you have some examples, that would help us decide whether this has broad enough use to justify a new element or see if there is a way to accomplish the same goal within the current schema.

Thanks,
Dick Hamilton

[peterfleck]

So we have been using ONIX alongside Docbook for a while. Whatever is not in Docbook I tag with ONIX.

I have been thinking that we should be able to replicate most if not all that is in a book in Docbook itself. ONIX is for metadata to suppliers etc carrying information about pricing and other related material. However <endorsement> seems to me to be part of a book, in that many books have endorsements printed on the very first page or very back page and then a very small selection used on the back cover.

I am currently using <xsl:template name="front.cover"> with onix:CollateralDetail/onix:TextContent/onix:Text

[rlhamilton]

Thanks for the explanation. We will be discussing this at our DocBook Technical Committee meeting today.

[shudson310]

We will consider this potentially for the DocBook Publishers spec, rather than full DocBook.