Re: XML DocBook patch

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Son, 2002-04-28 um 23.32 schrieb Damon Chaplin:
> On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 04:16, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > Any ideas about the cross-references?
> > > Maybe we can use a <ulink> element with a special URL type that the help
> > > viewer understands and knows how to resolve.
> > 
> > The docbook means for inter-document links is olink. 
> > 
> > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/dsssl/doc/olinksemantics.html
> > 
> > If the help viewer claims to support docbook, it should understand olinks.
> 
> Though it looks a bit awkward as you have to use entities with PUBLIC or
> SYSTEM identifiers to point to the target document.
> 

No, this would be the SGML-way which is of course no longer acceptible
in the new world order where every acronym must start with X. I know
people are working on making olink work with xpointers and there is
XSL out there for this (I don't have the links handy, you may be able to
find it somewhere on www.docbook.org, I can provide links tomorrow)

> 
> Also, I don't know if yelp would handle this.
> 

Of course, native docbook support has more to worry about than
cross-document links. First of all, we will have to switch from an 
everything-is-a-programlisting approach of markup to a more semantic
markup using funcsynopsis and descendents.