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Re: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..)
- To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..)
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: 10 Jul 2000 10:03:26 -0400
- Cc: docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <A5F46F4ED18FD211ABEE00105AC6CF07010938DB@email.cu-portland.edu>
- Reply-to: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
/ Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu> 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
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