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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions doc/asciidoc.txt
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distribution. The rendering of meta-data elements (or not) is
DocBook processor dependent.

Using attributes inside docinfo
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You can use attributes inside your `docinfo`:

----
<edition>{edition}</edition>
----

And then:

$ a2x -f pdf -a docinfo -a edition="Second" book.txt

[TIP]
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With this, if you are writting your book in a version control system
you can extract the build number and use it as the Edition. Here's an
example
http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Maintaining-a-Project#Generating-a-Build-Number[with
git]:

$ a2x -f pdf -a docinfo -a edition=`git describe --tags` book.txt

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<edition>{edition}</edition>