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List:       fedora-docs-list
Subject:    Re: Fragmentation in Linux Documentation?
From:       "Paul W. Frields" <stickster () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-05-21 13:25:17
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On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:21 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Karsten Wade <kwade@redhat.com> wrote:
> > A belated follow-up that has been sitting on my desktop ...
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 22:45 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> >
> > > Has docbook something like ifdef ?
> >
> > Yes, although the exact mechanism for XML escapes my ability to recall
> > at the moment.
> 
> AFAIK, the most syntactically correct mechanism for conditionally
> branching in XML
> is XPATH.
> 
> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath for a quick explanation.

I was under the impression that XPath was more a specification for
locating or addressing parts of an XML document.  There's much easier
ways to deal with this in DocBook using simple XSLT, e.g.:

  http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html 

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