Re: [docbook-apps] Profiling: best practices to exclude nodes ratherthan including them

[Georges Schmitz <georges.schmitz@arcor.de>]

Thanks Jirka,

it remains tricky enough, one has to think about the strategy first 
anyway, but now I'm sure that I'm not completely on the wrong track...

Regards,
Georges

Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Georges Schmitz wrote:
>
>> (A)
>> Now, a tutorial should be less crowded with extensive explanations of 
>> every gui label, than should eg. the help system. Thus I want to say: 
>> these 2 paras should go into a tutorial and the rest of the section 
>> (maybe 8 other paras) not.
>>
>> Do I have to tag 2 paras with condition="manual help tutorial" and 
>> the other 8 ones with condition="manual help"? In no time, you don't 
>> see anymore, which part of your document appears in which output.
>
>
> Sure you can do it this way, but it will be a lot of work. Usually it 
> is better to mark just *exceptions*. In order to do this you will 
> probably need to rethink how profiling information are used. In this 
> particular example not marking the first two paras and then marking 
> other eight ones with condition="nottutorial" or condition="verbose" 
> might have sense.
>
>> (B)
>> Similar problem with my conformance attribute: there is a central gui 
>> component in nearly all software modules, but eg. in module "mod7" 
>> there are missing 2 buttons, the other 7 modules use these buttons. 
>> As far as I can see, I have to write conformance="mod1 mod2 mod3 ... 
>> mod8", leaving out mod7 in the list.
>>
>> It would help a lot, if I could use a profiling attribute by 
>> "negation", saying in pseudo-style something like 
>> conformance="not(mod7)".
>
>
> You can use conformance="notmod7". Then if you will be generating 
> documentation for module 1, you will use 
> profile.conformance="mod1;notmod2;notmod3;notmod4;...;notmod7".
>
>> My question is: are there some methods to get profiling complexity 
>> down in my environment?
>
>
> The tricks mentioned above could help. If this is not satisfactory for 
> you, you can try to come up with some better logic of marking and 
> conditionaly removing content. But past experience shows that it is 
> quite hard to come with something which will be complete, simple and 
> predictable.
>
>                     Jirka
>