Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook-XML and conditional sections

["David L. Hintz" <dlh at MetaphaseTech dot com>]

At 07:05 AM 9/28/1999 -0400, you wrote:

>The biggest problem with using attributes is that the "ignored"
>parts are seen by the parser, so you can't (easily) duplicate
>required structures like title. Instead you have to do yucky
>things like:
>
>   <title><phrase arch="X86">Frobbing your X86 Processor</phrase>
>     <phrase arch="PPC">Frobbing your PowerPC Processor</phrase>
>   </title>

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.  We do this with single-source, multiple versions 
of a book, each having its own private text entity set.  We find it to be a 
_very_ effective use of SGML.

Dave
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