[ docbook-Feature Requests-1690539 ] man: different copyright/legalnotice for product and manpage

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Feature Requests item #1690539, was opened at 2007-03-29 20:20
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Category: XSL
Group: output: manpages
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Daniel Leidert (dleidert)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: man: different copyright/legalnotice for product and manpage

Initial Comment:
This one was raised up at http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/03/msg00336.html.

It is currently not possible o divide between copyright and legalnotice for upstream software (or "the product") and the manpage. The copyright.section element processes all copyright elements and then all legalnotice elements. There is no way to write down separate copyright and legal notices for the product and the manpage.

One idea to solve this could be to use the role attribute and process first role="product" and then "role="manpage". Another idea could be to use a processing instruction. What is your opinion?

Regards, Daniel

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>Comment By: Michael(tm) Smith (xmldoc)
Date: 2007-03-29 21:33

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Hi Daniel,

I don't want to further formalize the use of role in any context within
stylesheets (adding support for, e.g., emphasis@role=bold, was a mistake
that should not be repeated. The purpose of role is as a hook for end users
to use in their own customizations, not for us to use in the standard
stylesheet distribution. And this is not something that should require the
use of a processing instruction either.

What I whould probably have the stylesheets doing instead is to just
output all copyright and legalnotice instances in the exact same document
order in which they appear in the document. The fact that I didn't have it
doing that already is just because it was on oversight on my part (in other
words, because I was lazy). But it is a trivial thing to just have the
stylesheet output them in exact same order in which they appear in the
source.

Will that satisfy the requirement?

  --Mike

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