On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:38 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > It would be nice, though, to *not* have to enter all the extraneous > > name info in contexts where it won't be used. For example, doc > > revisions only need the person's initials to generate a revision > > entry, where RPM revisions need the person's full name and email. > > (BTW, generating the full name from the firstname and surname > > doesn't work for some people, like me for instance.) > > I know. That's why I have all those names, name parts, initials, > combinations and permutations like "wholename" in there. From that, > I generate the DocBook's <articleinfo> and <bookinfo> entries. > > Think of the rpm-info file as sort of a database where we can > squirrel away (potentially) useful data and then produce wonderous > results without resorting to custom surgery. Right, I understood this. > > I do want to actually move the content out of attributes and into > > elements where it seems more in keeping with standard XML usage, > > but I'll update the XSLT as needed to do that. > > Be very cautious here. I used attributes because they can make > searching and selection easier. There has long been a war between > the attribute folks and the sub-element folks, but then an emacs user > should be familiar with that sort of thing ;-) I did google my way to some advice on this, the simplest explanation being "if there's no required order to the content, use attributes." That makes sense to me. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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