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Re: Re: Stylesheet RFC -- "description" meta tag in html
/ Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> was heard to say:
| > Perhaps
| >
| > <abstract role="htmlmeta"><simpara>...</simpara></abstract>
|
| I don't even know if you have to go this far. Wouldn't this require a
| change to the Docbook DTD? I can't decide if this is necessary or
| not. Sometimes documents may have abstracts which seem
| inappropriately large for putting in a description HTML META field.
Right, that's the point of the 'role'. But this wouldn't require any
changes to the DTD. The 'role' attribute is a common attribute, and
simpara is allowed in abstract.
| You have interaction with chunking too. Sectional elements can have
| abstract, can't they? so it would be nice to take the ancestor's
| abstract, or fallback to <bookinfo> or whatever.
Yes, it'll be a little tricky finding the "right" abstract.
Cheers,
norm
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