Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:00:09 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version specific documentation Message-ID: <20010112100008.A6330@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200101112303.f0BN3dg20129@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:03:39PM -0800 References: <20001221135340.B61525@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200012281823.eBSINeV06392@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010110161524.G93855@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101102139.f0ALdsh06635@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010111094523.A97901@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101112303.f0BN3dg20129@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:03:39PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > > The "arch" attribute is a standard part of DocBook. It's not a FreeBSD > > extension. You can see all the elements that have an 'arch' attribute > > at > > > > http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/pe-common-attrib.html > > > > <aside>I can't recommend http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/docbook.html > > highly enough.</aside> > > I've been looking through it to find specific things (like elements), but > I'm only now learning what I don't know. Me too :-) > > The content of the attribute is entirely at our discretion. The DTD and > > stylesheets do not mandate any particular values for it. What you can't > > have is multiple copies of the same attribute on one element. You can't > > write something like > > > > <para arch="i386" arch="alpha"> > > > > you have to do something like > > > > <para arch="i386 alpha"> > > Hmmm. OK. My Scheme is pretty rusty, and the only book I have around > is my 1987 copy of Abelson & Sussmann (my first CS textbook from > college!). Between that and various random Web pages, I gather that > Scheme's string handling is pretty sparse, so we can't do something like > Perl's split. :-p Oh yes you can (damn, pantomime season's been and gone). Assuming you've got the stylesheets installed in /usr/local/, file:/usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl/modular/doc/lib/split.html N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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