Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Stylesheet RFC -- "description" meta tag in html

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> was heard to say:
| > Perhaps
| > 
| >   <abstract role="htmlmeta"><simpara>...</simpara></abstract>
| 
| I don't even know if you have to go this far.  Wouldn't this require a
| change to the Docbook DTD?  I can't decide if this is necessary or
| not.  Sometimes documents may have abstracts which seem
| inappropriately large for putting in a description HTML META field.

Right, that's the point of the 'role'. But this wouldn't require any
changes to the DTD. The 'role' attribute is a common attribute, and 
simpara is allowed in abstract.

| You have interaction with chunking too.  Sectional elements can have
| abstract, can't they?  so it would be nice to take the ancestor's
| abstract, or fallback to <bookinfo> or whatever.

Yes, it'll be a little tricky finding the "right" abstract.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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