Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:16:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: bortzmeyer@debian.org, doc@freebsd.org, sgml-tools@via.ecp.fr, dssslist@mulberrytech.com, oswg-discuss@oswg.org Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Including OS Version information on DocBook elements Message-ID: <14431.46583.222301.132344@weyr.cnri.reston.va.us> In-Reply-To: <19991221122224.B75275@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991221122224.B75275@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton writes: > I've set followups to the FreeBSD Doc. Proj. mailing list, doc@freebsd.org. > You don't need to be a subscriber to post there, and most people are in > the habit of doing 'Reply to all', so you should stay in the discussion. I'm definately not on that list, so a "Reply to All" or CC to me would be appreciated. > In the FreeBSD and Linux documentation communities the problem of how to > represent information that is only appropriate for one release of the code, > or a limited range of releases, comes up occasionally. The common link is ... > The last time we discussed this, the general consensus was to add three > attributes to every element in DocBook in our customisation layers. > > osversionmin > osversionmax > osversionequal This is probably pretty reasonable. My concern is that the attribute names imply that the constructs are only useful for OS versioning. I think this is likely to be useful for any large system; perhaps different names should be chosen? You may also want an attribute that allows specific version labels (NMTOKENS instead of NMTOKEN); perhaps "versionequal" should be "versionin"? -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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