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Re: DocBook-XML and conditional sections
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook-XML and conditional sections
- From: "David L. Hintz" <dlh at MetaphaseTech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:38:20 -0500
- References: <4.2.0.58.19990928100048.00af7290@mail><dlh@MetaphaseTech.com>
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My comment had to do only with the example where just one word differed in
the entire title. And that word was a prime candidate to be a text
entity. We, of course, use version attributes to specify completely
different blocks of documentation and a "phrase" tag that can be used just
about anywhere subelement versioning.
At 11:31 AM 9/29/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 28 September 1999, at 10 h 4, the keyboard of "David L. Hintz"
><dlh@MetaphaseTech.com> wrote:
>
> > We do this sort of thing all the time, but in our system (which, by the
> > way, isn't DocBook) it's coded as:
> >
> > <title>Frobbing your %cpuversion; Processor</title>
> >
> > which isn't at all yucky.
>
>But it doesn't allow you to do:
>
><sparc>
>This is the first release on the Sparc, so be careful.
></sparc>
><alpha>
>This is only the second release on the Alpha, but it is getting better.
></alpha>
>... Text for all architectures...
>
>Of course, you could define &arch-warning; but it can be a lot of entities
>to define if you have many such conditional bits of text.