Re: [docbook-apps] Status attribute

[Matteo Regazzo <matteo.regazzo@cmz.it>]

Dear Bob,
thank you for your prompt answer, I've read the link but I've not 
reached the point...
We are just using the profiling of the standard stylesheets.
We already use the common attributes "vendor", "audience" and 
"condition", and we use even "status" on the Book root declaration to 
generate a manual with the "draft" watermark on the pages.
Our need is to implement a condition that allow us to decide if some 
section, table, para, ... will be printed or not when the Book "status" 
is "draft" or similar.

Using the "condition" attribute, as you have suggested, I have to assign 
to "condition" attribute different flags/strings with different meanings 
(e.g. <para condition="green;draft">) it seems a not so clean solution.
Furthermore I have to pass the status condition to the command line 
(e.g. -param profile.status=draft), but the status of the manual is 
already declared in the source files themselves.
Is it possible to have a status condition, in each element of the book, 
where the condition value depends on the status attribute of the book 
root element?

<book status="draft">
    ...
    ...
    <para ???="draft">
        This para is printed only in the draft version.
    </para>

    <para ???="final">
        This para is printed only in the final version.
    </para>
</book>

What could I write instead of "???" ?

Matteo R.

Il 18/06/2014 19:39, Bob Stayton ha scritto:
> Hi Matteo,
> DocBook uses the term "profiling" to describe the process of filtering 
> out certain elements based on attribute values.  The DocBook schema 
> provides several common attributes for that purpose, but as you 
> discovered, @status is not "common" enough.
>
> The list of profiling attributes is described here:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html
>
> I might suggest @condition, which is a general purpose profiling 
> attribute that you can adapt to your needs.
>
> BTW, you don't need a customization to implement profiling.  The 
> DocBook XSL distribution can profile just by setting values for the 
> profiling parameters associated with the profiling attributes.  That's 
> all described in the doc reference above.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
> On 6/17/2014 8:16 AM, Matteo Regazzo wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I'm facing a problem with a customization... I want to inhibit the
> > presence of some object (such as rows, para, ...) in the generation of a
> > PDF document, and I was expecting that I could use the /_status="draft"
> > _/attribute, but it doesn't work.
> > I've discovered that from DocBook 4.5 it doesn't work as a common
> > attribute, but only for "book, chapter, ..." (maybe I can say only for
> > "macro"elements).
> > Which attribute may I use to obtain the same result? Or what else can 
> > I do?
> >
> > Thank you since now,
> > Matteo R.
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