Re: [docbook-apps] Re: URLs in bibliography

[Frans Englich <frans dot englich at telia dot com>]

On Friday 29 October 2004 09:26, Yoshihiro Toda wrote:
> Hello Frans,
>
> At Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:21:10 +0000,
>
> Frans Englich wrote:
> > I have a bit of trouble getting the bibliography right for URLs. I want a
> > descriptive paragraph/title, and then the URL, nicely formatted.
>
> What about BiblioSource for URLs?  like this:
>
> <biblioentry xreflabel="veryuseful">
>   <bibliosource class="uri">
>     <ulink url="http://....";>Very Useful Site</ulink>
>   </bibliosource>
> </biblioentry>
>
> (You may rather want to use Title element with empty ULink.)
>
> For descriptions, Abstract is suitable for a brief
> summary. Or BiblioMisc to include more detailed information.
>
> > Should one reference bibliography entries with plain xrefs? (I guess so)
>
> Yes.  In the above example, the entry can be referenced using XRef
> with linkend="veryuseful".

Thanks, that helped.

>
> > Also, how is a list of links in a section best done? That is, each
> > "entry" has an description, followed by the URL slightly indented in its
> > own paragraph. I tried a variablelist but the formatting didn't work(the
> > term is expected to be and the listitem long).
>
> VariableList has TermLength attribute, so it's possible to make a
> separate template for, say, "variablelist[@termlength = 'urllist']"
>
> > BTW, the Docbook XML Schemas are namespace aware, such that one can have
> > 'xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";' in the document element
> > without having to customize, right?
>
> Can we?  It doesn't validate on my system.

Apparently not :) Well, I thought so, that xmlns was a built-in, generic XML 
thing which was "above" the document definition. I apparently need to go 
study the fundamentals of XML.


Thanks,

		Frans