Lots of duplicate code in docbook

[Lorenzo Bertini]

Il 21/03/22 10:37, Daniel ha scritto:
> I have no knowledge about docbook. I never used it. I was just wondering 
> why so code is duplicated in the docbook functions. For example, 
> Tabular::docbookRowAsHTML and Tabular::docbookRowAsCALS seems to 
> duplicate much of Tabular::xhtmlRow. Isn't that an issue when adding new 
> features? Why not have common functions with only parts that differ or so?
> 
> Daniel

There is some degree of duplication between Docbook and LyXHTML code. I 
think its because the latter is much older and Thibaut had to write its 
own to produce Docbook. This has been brought up also when addressing 
MathML production. I agree LyX needs more standard XML generating functions.

Its part of a larger theme about XML production, and there was a talk 
sometime ago about using a library for this.