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Re: Including OS Version information on DocBook elements
- To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai at wxs dot nl>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Including OS Version information on DocBook elements
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at debian dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:53:45 +0100
- cc: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm dot org>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org, doc at freebsd dot org, sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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On Wednesday 22 December 1999, at 7 h 9, the keyboard of Jeroen
Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> wrote:
> What I understand in our FreeBSD and Debian cases is that we can use CVS
> to tag the appropriate piece of text and use those tags for the
> versioning. I am just wondering what solutions need to be thought of
> for projects not using CVS.
The proposed scheme has no relationship with CVS. The value of attributes
osversion* is just CDATA and you can use anything which is meaningful for your
project (making a project-independant numbering scheme is outside the scope of
the current proposal). If there is a semantic, it is in the application (see
next question).
> And that also wonders me, is all of that even possible with DSSSL (I am
> really a rookie with DSSSL) or other related languages/tools?
I do it with Perl/DOM.