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Subject: RE: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in docbook XML
You may also want to use <foreignphrase role="genus">...</foreignphrase> and <foreignphrase role="species">...</foreignphrase>. As most genus and species names are in Latin, and your document isn't, this is semantically more accurate than the <emphasis/> tag (which is a subject Tobias rather vehementally addressed) and the DocBook XSL stylesheets provided from docbook.sourceforge.net already render this as you want it to be rendered, unlike Tobias' suggestion to use <phrase/>. (As a side note, I'd like to point out that Jeff Biss's use of id=genus below is probably not what he intended. The role attribute is designed to create "sub-classifications" of an element. The id attribute is used to identify a specific, single, element.) Jeff Beal -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Biss [mailto:jeff@marco-inc.com] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:45 AM To: raju@iccind.stpn.soft.net Cc: Gisbert Amm; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in docbook XML Raju, I would suggest that you not change the DTD to accomplish what you want, which is italicized Genus and Species names. The Italization is not accomplished in the DTD it is accomplished through the appropriate stylesheet. You could use something like: <emphasis id=genus> genus</emphasis> or <emphasis id=species>specie</species> The stylesheet would then render all emphasis elements with ids of genus or species as italic. This looks like it would work because the Definitive Reference states that the common attributes are available in the <emphasis> element. Jeff Biss Raju Sharma wrote: Thanks for the providing me the solution. I tried to customize the DTD, but it is giving an error "DTD error - text is not well-formed after entity resolution (please verify all entities)" during the declaration of the genusSpecies element (marked with ==>). Please look at the below DTD declaration and let me know what could be the error. ========== <!ENTITY % local.para.class "|genus|species"> <!ENTITY % DocBookDTD PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" " http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd "> %DocBookDTD; ==><!ELEMENT genus - - ((%smallcptr.char.mix;)+)> <!ATTLIST genus %common.attrib; %classname.role.attrib; %local.classname.attrib; > ==><!ELEMENT s pecies - - ((%smallcptr.char.mix;)+)> <!ATTLIST species %common.attrib; %classname.role.attrib; %local.classname.attrib; > ========= Regards Raju Sharma -----Original Message----- From: Gisbert Amm [mailto:gia@webde-ag.de] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:27 PM To: 'raju@iccind.stpn.soft.net'; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in docbook XML Since DocBook is all about technological (computer related) items there's no special markup for biological terms as you need it. If you do not have other requirements, you could simply use some non-semantic inline markup like <emphasis></emphasis> to get the genus and species names italic. If you'd like to have <genus> and <species> as elements within your XML, you had to customize the DTD as described on http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html "Customizing DocBook"; then you had to provide the matching XSL routines for the new elements aswell (see http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#d0e4162 "Writing a customization layer" ff.) Kind regards Gisbert Amm http://web.de/ -----Original Message----- From: Raju Sharma [mailto:raju@iccind.stpn.soft.net] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 7:14 AM To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in docbook XML Hello, I want to code some genus & species names in italic format. Is there any coding available in docbook for the same? If not then how can I add these names in my XML? Thanks in advance for all your kind help. Regards Raju Sharma
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