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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:40:29 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: <filename> tags and use of class="directory" attribute
Message-ID:  <20010926124029.R31744@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010926121908.A23272@hades.hell.gr>; from charon@labs.gr on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:19:08PM %2B0300
References:  <20010926121908.A23272@hades.hell.gr>

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:19:08PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> [ A few bits of DocBook anal-retentiveness. ]
>=20
> I noticed that there are places (very few, this is true) in the english
> documentation that use the <filename> tag with it's class=3D"" attribute.
> A little search in the DocBook DTD's showed that <filename> supports the
> following classes: headerfile, devicefile, directory, libraryfile, symlin=
k and
> path.

[...]

> Is this done because it's preferred to avoid cluttering the SGML source w=
ith
> too much markup (or some other equally important reason)? (in which case,=
 those
> few places that *do* use class=3D"" are better removed)  If not, should I=
 go
> through the docs and add proper class attributes to those <filename> tags=
 that
> do not have them?

In all honesty it's probably not worth the effort.  <filename class=3D"foo">
falls in to roughly the same category as things like <acronym> or
<abbrev>.  It's nice if people make the effort to use them, but we're
not going to lose sleep if they're ommitted.  If you've got the spare
time and are looking for a nice simple project then by all means go and
do it, the patch certainly won't be turned down.  But it's not something
I'd consider to be top priority.

[ Just my opinion, of course ]

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