discuss: Proposing some new HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
18 Sep 2001 15:58:26 -0000
Message-Id: <20010918114845.B6072@lupercalia.net>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:22:31AM -0400, Dan York wrote:
> > > That way, we can either make it one large book which is a successor to
> >
> > Either approach is good. I like having a full guide, but if you really
> > prefer HOWTOs we'll go with that.
>
> I guess I was a little too happy with the Delete key and killed the msg in
> this thread that I was going to respond to here... so I'll respond to this
> one...
>
> In my opinion, there is a way to have both a guide and multiple HOWTOs from
> the same source. Why not break the text into multiple files and use entity
> references to pull ALL of them into the guide and then separately into
> individual HOWTO docs.
>
> Drastically simplifying the DocBook, here is how it could be structured:
Could be as a single xml file that is extracted with xslt? Or am I
just xslt-happy right now? ;-p
But either way, it can be made to work. Great idea.
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