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Re: Markup questions
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: Moritz Weiten <weiten at dynamik dot fb10 dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:11:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Markup questions
- References: <20021217124113.J5367@caldera.com><000301c2a678$eac12cd0$2b689582@Dynamik.local>
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:36:17AM +0100, Moritz Weiten wrote:
> Thank you for the reply!
>
> Concerning the bibliography-questions:
>
> If I cannot work with the brackets within DocBook-content, I can easiliy
> add them in the transformation.
Yes, that is the best way if you are willing to customize
the stylesheet.
> It should be possible to implement different references to the same
> source on the stylesheet-level.
> But it requires some additional "intelligence". In the tbook-system
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tbookdtd/), references to the
> bibliography are distinguished with the help of a "type" attribute.
> While the id-attribute determines the target, the type-attribute
> determines how the reference is shown: M|ller et. al. (1978) or (M|ller
> et. al. 1978) or M|ller et. al. 1978
> I was wondering, wether a similar mechanism is implemented (or planned)
> for DocBook.
Yes, the 'role' attribute can be used for such purposes.
It is a general purpose attribute typically used
for such purposes.
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