Hi, If the abstract appears only on the titlepage of the article, you can customize the titlepage stylesheet to omit the abstract. Otherwise, you can do it with profiling, and assign a condition to the abstract that does not get fulfilled, but for this you have to modify your build environment somewhat. Bob's book describes both methods in detail: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
There may be other solutions well, but these come to my mind first. Regards, Robert On Saturday, May 01, 2010 19:19 CEST, Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I'm relatively new to DocBook, so this may be completely off track. > > In short I want to know what the best way is to suppress an element in > the processed output. > > I have multiple articles that include one <abstract> element per article > that is used as a summary of the article. (If I should be using > something other than <abstract> please let me know what I should use.) > I am then XIncluding the <title> and <abstract> of the articles using > XInclude lines with an XPointer referencing the ID of the element to > include. This is working just fine. > > What I want to know how to do is suppress the output of the <abstract> > in the original article when I'm processing it by its self. > > I added the <abstract> to the articles for the purpose of being > XIncluded elsewhere and I want it to not show up unless it's explicitly > referenced. I guess you could look at the <abstract> as meta data for > the article that I want there to be used by other DocBooks, not to be > used the the article its self. > > How would I go about suppressing an element in the individual article(s)? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Grant. . . . > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
