Yes. It is like a compiler hint. You can ignore it for your purposes.
I am planning to use it, for example, to dynamically generate custom
documents on my website.
- An XSLT queries the XML file and finds all unique values for the role
attribute.
- It creates a form which provides a row of checkboxes for the user to
select one or more role values
- When the user presses the "go" button, a document is dynamically
generated which includes only those sections whose role attribute
matches one of those selected, or which has no role attribute.
--Craeg
Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hmm... so 'role' can mean anything at all then?
>
> I am writing an XSLT to turn Docbook into OpenDocument. I guess I have
> to just ignore the role attribute, right?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> Craeg Strong wrote:
>
>> role is a generic attribute that is available on nearly every docbook
>> element.
>> It's use is largely application-defined. Whomever authored that test
>> file either provided
>> a custom DTD that lists the valid attribute values or they did not.
>> see: http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/pe-role.html
>> hope this helps,
>
