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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SGML vs XML
Trevor, > There are "features" of SGML that have not been incorporated into XML. The > one I miss most and that keeps me using SGML is INCLUDE/IGNORE marked > sectons. Especially as the status keyword can be the replacement of an > entity reference. Although there are techniques for achieving this with > XML (by hacking XSLT code to evaluate element attribtues) I believe that > the SGML feature is safer and preferable. It is clear in the SGML document > instance what will/wont be processed; there is no such clarity with an XML > document instance. As a replacement for this functionality, I would suggest you take a look at the "profiling" that has been included in the last several releases of the XSLT stylesheets. Jirka has a document about it at: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/tools/profiling.html and I have a few slides showing its usage in the tutorial I did at OLS at: http://www.lodestar2.com/people/dyork/talks/2002/ols/docbook-tutorial/frames/section07.html This allows me to very simply and easily do what I used to do with INCLUDE/IGNORE. Dan -- Dan York, Product Line Manager, SME Server and ServiceLink Mitel Networks Corporation dan_york@mitel.com Ph: +1-613-592-2122 Cell: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-592-1175 350 Legget Drive, Ottawa, ON, K2K 2W7 Canada http://www.mitel.com/sme/ and http://www.e-smith.com/
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