>
>
> Patrick,
>
> The docinfo file you created is for DocBook output, but you are creating an
> HTML document. You either need to create a DocBook file:
>
> asciidoctor -b docbook book.adoc
>
> or you need to make a docinfo file for HTML named book-docinfo.html.
>
> Asciidoctor is simply injecting the docinfo content into the output
> document.
>
> See https://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#docinfo-file for details.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Dan
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 9:44 AM Patrick Ben Koetter [via Asciidoctor ::
> Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > Greetings!
> >
> > First of all thank you very much for all the great work you've put into
> > asciidoctor. I'm a long time asciidoc user and you've really taken the
> > subject a significant step further.
> >
> > I'm trying to place a visible revision history at the beginning of a book.
> > Searching the archives I found references suggesting I should create an XML
> > file (just like in asciidoc). This file should be named like the book, but
> > have an additional suffix "-docinfo.xml".
> >
> > I did so, but asciidoctor doesn't seem to embed the contents of the
> > docinfo file. Is there any additional switch/option I need to set? Here's
> > what I did to verify procedure...
> >
> > I've created a book.adoc file and added these attributes:
> >
> > ----
> > Book
> > ====
> > :doctype: book
> > :docinfo: private
> > ----
> >
> > Then I created a dook-docinfo.xml file, containing this dataset:
> >
> > ----
> > <revhistory>
> >   <revision>
> >     <revnumber>0.01</revnumber>
> >     <date>2018-11-22</date>
> >     <authorinitials>PBK</authorinitials>
> >     <revremark>
> >         First remark
> >     </revremark>
> >   </revision>
> >   <revision>
> >     <revnumber>0.02</revnumber>
> >     <date>2018-11-23</date>
> >     <authorinitials>PBK</authorinitials>
> >     <revremark>
> >         Another remark
> >     </revremark>
> >   </revision>
> > </revhistory>
> > ----
> >
> > Finally I used this command to proecess the asciidoc file and have it
> > create HTML output:
> >
> > $ asciidoctor book.adoc
> >
> > But the only file that holds the string remains book-docinfo.xml:
> >
> > $ grep PBK book*
> > book-docinfo.xml:    <authorinitials>PBK</authorinitials>
> > book-docinfo.xml:    <authorinitials>PBK</authorinitials>
> >
> > Am I doing it wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > p@rick
> >
> > $ asciidoctor -V
> > Asciidoctor 1.5.8 [https://asciidoctor.org]
> > Runtime Environment (ruby 2.5.3p105 (2018-10-18 revision 65156)
> > [x86_64-linux]) (lc:UTF-8 fs:UTF-8 in:UTF-8 ex:UTF-8)
> >
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