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Re: DocBook-XML and conditional sections


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.


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