R002--DocBook Directory layout

Maybe the document seems confused because it mixes recommendations for SGML and XML with recommendations for DocBook. It would somehow have been good to separate it into two documents. On the other hand, this allowed to think in very practical terms.

There is only one lower level of directories. The directory names are vaguely defined as holding one "package". One advantage is that the relation to any RPM or DEB package is very close. The other advantage is that we have a very flat tree, thus easing both hacking, packaging and maintenance by system administrators.

The lower level directories are version-numbered. This unusual naming scheme is intended to permit documents that are written using several versions of the same DTD to coexist on the same system.