Re: [docbook-apps] Storing data within Docbook?

[davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 19/11/13 00:34, Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> I'm transforming some data from an XML format into a Docbook table - but
> not all of the data in the XML is to be displayed in Docbook. I would,
> however, like to store it in my Docbook XML - because future
> transformations would like to read my Docbook XML and they'd need /all/
> of the data that went into it. I'd rather not introduce a secondary file
> for storing the extra data - this would bring complications and fragility.
>
> I thought of adding extra columns in the Docbook table and setting them
> to be hidden - but it doesn't seem to be possible to 'hide' a column
> easily. Another idea would be to store in in XML comments - which would
> still be accessible in my transformation as well.


*if* all your cells to be hidden are in the same column

<entry role='hidden'> to contain the cells which you do not want
to be shown?






regards

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