[publican-list] [Bug 616142] New: RFC: building only part of a book by altering xrefs

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Darrin Mison wrote:
> Actually I would like this feature for a different usecase: debugging.
> 
> It's useful to be able to comment out includes from the root document
> xml to quickly narrow down the source of the problem, but with projects
> that have lots of xrefs it's a nightmare.

Any reason you can't use conditions as per my original response?

Modifying the DTD to be incompatible with upstream is a huge step in the 
wrong direction IMHO. Doubly so since using conditions is a pretty 
simple work around, again IMHO.

Cheers, Jeff.

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