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Re: DocBook-XML and conditional sections
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook-XML and conditional sections
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at pasteur dot fr>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:31:41 +0200
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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.