Re: Docbook 5.x

14.09.2016 19:41, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Alexander Law wrote:
>
>> 14.09.2016 18:30, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> What's up with 30?
>> ecpg.sgml contains "<remark>The scope of the allocated descriptor is
>> WHAT?.</remark>", which is printed with XSLT but ignored with DSSSL.
>>
>> Maybe we can just remove such remarks.
> I added Michael on CC. Maybe he can clarify what the scope of the
> descriptor is, so that we can add some proper sentence, and remove the
> <remark> tag.
>
>
> It's strange that the xslt prints the <remark> text, when the historical
> behavior was to ignore it. Maybe OASIS changed their mind as to what it
> meant.
>
In fact it's controlled by show.comments variable in XSLT, which is
defined in doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-common.xsl as:

<xsl:param name="show.comments">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($pg.version, 'devel')">1</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:param>

And it's just inconsistent with the DSSSL definition ((define
%show-comments% draft-mode)). So we can just ignore the
difference. Though question that is still open since 2003 could be
answered at the end of the day.