[publican-list] Organization issue and multiple docs

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:46 -0400, Jared Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 11:40 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Ok, thats freaking awesome.  Is there a way to build a book where
> > "role==users" ?
> 
> Absolutely... I'm not sure what the proper way to do this in Publican
> is, but my own toolchains have always just had a setting in the Makefile
> that generates the document based on a particular role.  If you're using
> xsltproc to process your XML, you can simply set "--stringparam
> profile.condition users" to have it only process nodes that have no role
> set or the role == users.

Jared makes a great point I stupidly left out, which is that by leaving
the @role out entirely, you more-or-less guarantee that an XML element
will be in all the versions of the document.  You only need to put the
@role in where it's needed.

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