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RE: [docbook] Clean way to insert a "pause" between blocks of paragraphs?


It's an abbreviation for "Processing Instruction".  It looks like this:

<?piname arbitrary text?>

Typically, these are used to provide special instructions to a particular
processor or in a particular processing mode.  Norm's Docbook XSL
stylesheets use, for example, a series of processing instructions labelled
<?dbhtml ...?> or <?dbfo ...?> depending on the output type.  In your case,
you could use a processing instruction like <?jjramsey pause?>.  Then, in an
XSL customization layer, write a template like:

<xsl:template
match="processing-instruction('jjramsey')[contains(.,'pause')]">
  <div class="pause"><img src="graphics/break.png"/></div>
</xsl:template>

-----Original Message-----
From: James J. Ramsey [mailto:jjramsey_6x9eq42 at yahoo dot com]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:52 AM
To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Subject: Re: [docbook] Clean way to insert a "pause" between blocks of
paragraphs?



--- Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz> wrote:
> "James J. Ramsey" wrote:
> 
> > > If using sections is not appropriate or too
> rigid in
> > > your case, you can
> > > use bridgehead and customize its rendering in
> > > stylesheets.
> > 
> > Are you sure that isn't an abuse of the
> "bridgehead"
> > tag?
> 
> I'm almost sure that it is sort of abuse. Another
> approach will be using
> PI to mark places where some decorative pause should
> occur.

What's PI?


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