more defined process

Dave Pawson davep at dpawson.co.uk
Sun Aug 15 15:25:55 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 00:38, Mark Johnson wrote:
> FWIW, I have some experience in implementing profiling and would be 
> happy to offer help as needed.
> 
>  From a quick scan of the fedora docs guide, I can't tell if it 
> mentions conditional sections, but if it does, we ought to rewrite 
> that section. 'Be happy to file the appropriate bug...
> 
> In fact, the DocBook TC recently agreed to add another global 
> attribute 'wordsize', which can be used via profiling to distinguish 
>   32-bit relevant content from 64-bit content. fedora docs may find 
> this attribute to be useful. (Caveat: the attribute was added to 
> DocBook V4.4, which is still in the candidate-release phase.)

Mark, I'd be more supportive of attribute based selection,
rather than conditional sections? Then filter based on stylesheet
parameters as Tammy suggested?

Especially since the current DTD may well be the last for docbook?
A move to relax NG would make any development work here redundant?


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