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Subject: DOCBOOK: expanding acronyms
I have been working on a documentation project where I work for a little bit and I did a custom xsd and xslt's. I did a little docbook though working on something for the Linux Documentation Project and I was very impressed with it. I am trying now to migrate my work into valid docbook and it has been amazingly simple except for one thing. The document has a list of acromyns at the begining defined in a set of <acronymdefinition> tags. Later in the document specific acronyms are empty tags whose linkend attribute refers back to the id of a definition. The first appearance of an acronym in a section is expanded with the full name written out and the acronym following in parens (eXtensible Markup Language (XML)). The later instances are just the acronym (XML). All of them are references back to the table of acronyms. As I am writing this I am perusing the documenation and have this idea: <glossary> <glossentry id="xml"> <glossterm>eXtensible Markup Language</glossterm> <acronym>XML</acronym> <glossdef><para/></glossdef> </glossentry> </glossary> <para> DocBook is a <xref linkend="xml"/> language for describing software manuals </para> I am going pretty much hit and miss currently. I am looking through the tags for what sounds like something useful, but there are too many to just read through the spec. Is there a better way to do this than what I outlined above? Will Holcomb
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