From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman Walsh To: Gregory Leblanc Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <87wviugk0h.fsf@nwalsh.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00273.html / Gregory Leblanc was heard to say: | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Norman Walsh [ mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com ] | > SGML doesn't really have a good cross-document linking | > solution (though | > you can cobble one together, see my tutorials about olink on | > nwalsh.com). http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/olinksemantics.html | it, but I'd appreciate a pointer if you read this before I find it. There | really needs to be a good way to link between separate documents for a lot | of things. That's one of the biggest problems that the LDP has right now. | It's very hard to reference other documents because all you can do is say | "read document named X", and not do a very good job linking to that | document, or even better, to a specific section of that document. It's one of the biggest problems XML has right now, IMHO. It should be/will/is possible to build a solution with XPointer and XLink, but I don't know of an out-of-the-box one available now. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh | All our foes are mortal.--Val\'ery http://nwalsh.com/ | From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman Walsh To: Gregory Leblanc Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87wviugk0h.fsf@nwalsh.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00071.html Message-ID: <20000710070300.yFhkaOgEXw91YxarMJA1Stdgd02viYqmZAw9TewYfzU@z> / Gregory Leblanc was heard to say: | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Norman Walsh [ mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com ] | > SGML doesn't really have a good cross-document linking | > solution (though | > you can cobble one together, see my tutorials about olink on | > nwalsh.com). http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/olinksemantics.html | it, but I'd appreciate a pointer if you read this before I find it. There | really needs to be a good way to link between separate documents for a lot | of things. That's one of the biggest problems that the LDP has right now. | It's very hard to reference other documents because all you can do is say | "read document named X", and not do a very good job linking to that | document, or even better, to a specific section of that document. It's one of the biggest problems XML has right now, IMHO. It should be/will/is possible to build a solution with XPointer and XLink, but I don't know of an out-of-the-box one available now. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh | All our foes are mortal.--Val\'ery http://nwalsh.com/ |