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Re: xref style proposal
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>
- Cc: 'Bob Stayton' <bobs at caldera dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:29:34 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: xref style proposal
- References: <E08C8F26F6901D42B1201763D125853815B329@ntdevexc.win.ansys.com>
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/ Jeff Beal <jeff.beal@ansys.com> was heard to say:
| This looks like a fabulous idea. Have you given any thought to using a
| template attribute instead of the select attribute where the author
| specifies, instead of a pre-defined name, the exact contents of what would
| come out of the gentext template? For example, instead of <xref
| select="title"/>, I could put <xref template="%t"/>? This would give even
| more flexibility to the author, and would also remove a level of indirection
| (possible performance increase?).
I don't like this idea because it's very processor-specific (even if
it is my favorite processor :-).
I can imagine other processors supporting "title" as a cross reference
style, but I don't want to encourage different tools to stick code
snippets and things in there because I think it'll damage
interoperability.
Be seeing you,
norm
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