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Re: publisher element
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- Cc: Restie Perona <rperona at marylandcomp dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:25:15 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: publisher element
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:30:07PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Restie Perona wrote:
> >
> > > hi guys,
> > >
> > > can anybody help me about this?
> > >
> > > My text shows like this: "Philadelphia: WB Saunders,"
> > >
> > > with error:
> > > <publisher>
> > > <address>
> > > <city>Philadelphia:</city>
> > > </address>
> > > <publishername>WB Saunders,</publishername>
> > > </publisher>
> > >
> > > valid:
> > > <publisher>
> > > <publishername>WB Saunders,</publishername>
> > > <address>
> > > <city>Philadelphia:</city>
> > > </address>
> > > </publisher>
> > >
> > > Is there anybody know the reason behind this?
> >
> > because the <publisher> element is defined to have a mandatory
> > <publishername> element *followed by* an arbitrary number of
> > <address> elements. <publishername> must come first.
>
> That's true in the document, but it doesn't prevent a
> stylesheet customization from presenting them in a
> different order in output.
i realized that, but it seemed that providing a stylesheet customization
just to change the order of two elements was not a worthy goal. as
dogbert would say, "it's like sandblasting a soup cracker."
rday