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RE: [docbook] ulink and alternate transformations
- From: Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>
- To: 'Jeffery Biss' <jeff at marco-inc dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:53:48 -0500
- Subject: RE: [docbook] ulink and alternate transformations
What are someFile.html and someFile.pdf? Are they other sections of the
current document? If they are, you should definitely be using <xref/> or
<link/> instead of <ulink/>. If they are part of another document that you
control, you should probably be using <olink/>. <ulink/> is designed for
creating links to static Internet resources.
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffery Biss [mailto:jeff@marco-inc.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:27 PM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook] ulink and alternate transformations
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I just realized that if I use the ulink element and wish to
> produce say,
> for simplicity's sake, two output formats: PDF (with links)
> and html I
> had no idea how to deal with that in the XML source. As I see it now
> there are two possible options:
>
> 1) Two source files, one for each output format:
>
> ulink for html output: <ulink url="someFile.html">some
> file</ulink>
>
> unlink for PDF output: <ulink url="someFile.pdf">some file</ulink>
>
> 2) One source where the file name is supplied without an extension:
> <ulink url="someFile.">some file</ulink>
> where the stylesheet must add the appropriate extension.
>
> Which way is correct? I would think that there must be a method that
> allows a single source to produce a large variety of
> transformed output
> without requiring rework of the source. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Jeff Biss
>
>
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