RE: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..)

[Peter Toft <pto at sslug dot dk>]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:03 AM
> > To: Gregory Leblanc
> > Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: Re: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up
> > docbook-tools. ..)
> > 
> > / 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
> 
> For anybody who hasn't read this, here's fair warning about it being a wee
> little bit hard to understand.  No offense, please, I'm just having a very
> hard time understanding this, perhaps because I've only got about 6 months
> working with SGML.  As an example "The format of generated text is

I tried to raise the same problem some weeks ago - I
have used Docbook for 2 years now, but I cant make make
the olink work from Normans webpage description. It is
not easy IMHO.



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