Re: [docbook-apps] how to add "extra" meta-info to a docbook document

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:

> If you are using the XSL stylesheets, you can
> use the 'condition' attribute as Juan says and
> use the profiling stylesheets, which do 
> conditional text processing.  See:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html
> 
> But I'm not sure by what you meant with
> 
> "embed non-DB info in a DB file"

while the actual content of the manual that will be *printed*
will consist of only docbook tags, i'd like to bury non-docbook
tags in the manual that i can extract later for creating web pages
to describe those manuals.

for example, a web page for any of my courses will contain a
"synopsis" of the course, as well as a "prerequisites" section.
these are not valid docbook tags, but i'd like to embed info like
that in the manual, so that *all* viewable material derived
from a manual is contained in the manual itself.

as one solution, i guess i could just put all that info in 
comments at the top of the docbook file.  that's one way to
do it.

rday