Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was wondering the other day when I translated the New Debian > > Maintainer HOWTO about the differences between debiandoc and > > linuxdoc-sgml. Specifically I wanted to know why debiandoc hasn't got a > > url or htmlurl tag (AFAIK only email, and ftp are available). That way > > linking to other documents in the web is no possible. > > Is this standard policy or could this be discussed and, possibly, > > changed? > > I don't why it isn't in the package but maybe Ian Jackson can shed a > light on this. It's AFAIK certainly no policy. I guess it wasn't > deemed necessary at the time of the design of the package. > > Fortunately for you (and others :-) this is one of the things I'm > currently working on to add to the package. Since I will be out of > town the last two weeks of May this will not be available until > somewhere in June.
I concurr that we need a generic reference type. In fact, this could subsume the ftp stuff, which I think is a little awkward, although I'm not sure too much what it's rationale is. How are you planning to write the DTD for URLs? You could say either (html style) <url id="http://www.foo.com/bar/";>Bar home page</url> or more in keeping (I think) with debiandoc-sgml as it is now, just <url id="http://www.foo.com/bar/";>. Alternatively, you could do either way using a more generic <ref> tag, i.e., <ref type="url" id="http://www.foo.com/bar/";>, and with or without the labeling. > Are there more things you find missing of different or ... ? I can't > garuantee all your wishes will be met (we like to keep the package > well-designed and thought-through), but maybe we can accomodate you. Ardo, I'm glad to see you're continuing to improve the system. This is a heads up. For slink, we're (hopefully) going to have a pretty thorough and complete method of cataloging all the documentation that is installed locally, including HTML files, SGML files, ASCII, even .info files I think (ok, not man pages ;). Each "document" (which may be several files) has a globally unique documentid set by the pkg maintainer, and may have any number of formats available. Local user preferences will control how/which format is displayed when the document is referenced. Anyhow, I'm hoping that debiandoc-sgml can be outfitted with a method of referring to document-ids. So you could say: <docref id="packaging-manual"> or <ref type="debiandoc" id="packaging-manual"> Thoughts? .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
