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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] Assembly questions
"Rowland, Larry" <larry.rowland@hp.com> writes: > I just pulled a copy of the DocBook source tree from sourceforge to try and > work out an example that demonstrates the type attribute and I noticed we > seem to have lost the description attribute on the resource and resources > elements. Not sure if it was intentional or just got lost in transcription, > so wanted to check and see. It was text in both cases, intended to replace > comments in the file describing what resources were for with something > easy to parse for doing things like generating manifests. Yes, I may have dropped them on the floor. Attributes are inappropriate for human-readable prose: they're not I18N friendly in terms of glyphs (for non-Unicode characters) and can't contain the nested markup that is sometimes necessary. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | To create a little flower is the http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | labour of ages.-- Blake Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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