add "docbook" to be an abstract and method description type

[atn38]

I'd like the option to store docbook formatted text in metabase, for direct insertion into EML docs down the pipeline. Partly motivated by me finding out that markdown doesn't support sub/superscripts very elegantly.

[gastil]

Good news An: core-mb already supports that. The column "method_xml" is for docbook formatted text. When we put text into <abstract> or <methodStep>, that part of the xml subtree that goes there, that IS docbook.

Recall I am hoping to also store my abstracts in docbook. I use <emphasis> for species names in abstract text and occasionally a <ulink> to a paper but, as you noted, <subscript> is super common, ie CO2. I'm not seeing an abstract_xml column. Is that only because I'm not at the latest version?

[atn38]

good point gastil, but isn't the column method_xml meant to contain the whole methods tree, not just description? i.e. multiple method steps, provenance, the whole works?

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Good news An: core-mb already supports that. The column "method_xml" is for docbook formatted text. When we put text into or

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[atn38]

patch 39 modifies this constraint

[atn38]

closing