Nik Clayton writes:
> I've set followups to the FreeBSD Doc. Proj. mailing list, .
> You don't need to be a subscriber to post there, and most people are in
> the habit of doing 'Reply to all', so you should stay in the discussion.
I'm definately not on that list, so a "Reply to All" or CC to me
would be appreciated.
> In the FreeBSD and Linux documentation communities the problem of how to
> represent information that is only appropriate for one release of the code,
> or a limited range of releases, comes up occasionally. The common link is
...
> The last time we discussed this, the general consensus was to add three
> attributes to every element in DocBook in our customisation layers.
>
> osversionmin
> osversionmax
> osversionequal
This is probably pretty reasonable. My concern is that the
attribute names imply that the constructs are only useful for OS
versioning. I think this is likely to be useful for any large system;
perhaps different names should be chosen?
You may also want an attribute that allows specific version labels
(NMTOKENS instead of NMTOKEN); perhaps "versionequal" should be
"versionin"?
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
