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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Including OS Version information on DocBook elements
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes: | The semantic that Nik's after goes well beyond what marked | sections can provide. Okay, you're right. But simple cases are solvable with marked section right now. You can mark a section as "version-from-1.2-to 2.1" and to include this section if appropriate. AFAIK, nesting and overlapping are not possible? The attribute solution has the following drawbacks: At certain points you'll have to add elements to produce a valid DocBook document (two title elements in sequence are not allowed) or to add elements to have a possibility to add the needed info at all (part of a para element might belong to a special version). The proposed solution is to use phrase elements; this was discussed earlier this year. | And using XML instead of SGML makes writing applications to perform | these sorts of semantic transformations nearly infinitely easier. Application, yes. But I've said that it's more convinient for the user enter data in SGML (OMITTAG, SHORTTAG); at least, it's easier for some users who don't have advanced SGML/XML editors available. Thanks for reading -- my english isn't the best; at times it might sound harsh (sorry, Nik). I always get in a fury if I've feeling someone tries to solve a problem already solved (re-invent the wheel). Merry Xmas -- now, I'm on holidays :-) -- work : ke@suse.de | : http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ------ ,__o personal: ke@gnu.franken.de | ------ _-\_<, : http://www.franken.de/users/gnu/ke/ | ------ (*)/'(*)
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