From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 25 17:13:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB18137B401; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (milan.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0048843E4A; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de) Received: by milan.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 006D2ABC3; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:52:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:52:58 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vs in books/fdp-primer/sgml-markup/chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20020825235258.GA805@unixpages.org> References: <20020813205741.GR14281@unixpages.org> <20020825155620.GD1988@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020825155620.GD1988@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:56:20PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > The Docbook Guide describes the two very shortly as: > > pubdate - The date of publication of a document > releaseinfo - Information about a particular release of a document > > This sounds very similar, at first glance. In fact, the two are > identical for online documents, like the FreeBSD documentation. > My guess is that pubdate is meant for books that are typeset, and > printed the way "real world" books are, where an edition is made > public every now and then. The releaseinfo description matches my > idea of what an online document is. A document that is constantly > updated and new releases of it become available as changes are > committed to the document repository. > Nice explanation, I agree with it. So, I guess if no one objects, following patch could be committed: --- chapter.sgml Sun Aug 18 19:26:25 2002 +++ chapter.sgml.modified Mon Aug 26 01:48:09 2002 @@ -794,9 +794,7 @@ <holder role="mailto:your e-mail address">Your name</holder> </copyright> - <pubdate role="rcs">$Date$</pubdate> - - <releaseinfo>$Id$</releaseinfo> + <releaseinfo>$FreeBSD$</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para>Include an abstract of the book's contents here.</para> @@ -845,9 +843,7 @@ <holder role="mailto:your e-mail address">Your name</holder> </copyright> - <pubdate role="rcs">$Date$</pubdate> - - <releaseinfo>$Id$</releaseinfo> + <releaseinfo>$FreeBSD$</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para>Include an abstract of the article's contents here.</para> - Christian -- http://www.unixpages.org chris@unixpages.org GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: 0DB5 8563 2473 C72A A8D1 56EA DAD2 B05D 5F3C 3185 GPG Key ID : DAD2B05D5F3C3185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message