On Sunday 03 Mar 2002 14:57, Lauri Watts wrote: > On Sunday 03 March 2002 15.10, Daniel Naber wrote: > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 10:45, Malcolm Hunter wrote: > > > We have &kde-http; and &kde-ftp; - how about replacing all of the > > > URLs with entities, so that it will be very easy to test dead links > > > without searching all of the docs? > > > > Searching all the docs should be very easy, it just needs a simple > > regular expression to look for links. So I don't see an advantage in > > using entities. > > I think I have to agree. > > There must be thousands of links in the documents, and many of them are > translated (for example, we link to some well-known "online etiquette" > pages in english in the knode docu, and translators have asked > previously that they can add or replace those to links that describe > their own national hierarchy etiquette rules, or are simply in their > own language. > > The entity list is already almost unmanageably big, and intimidating for > most writers, I think this would tip it far over the edge. > > I do have an idea on link checking though. When the docs online (which > is quite soon) we can do some very simple automated link checking very > easily, by running tools from the top of docs.kde.org and letting them > traverse all the documents. There's plenty of search bots and linkbots > around that can do that, I'll see what can be done.
I guess I just showed my newbie status with regards to docs :?). I'm a bit dubious about search bots though. It's all right if the usual 404 is detected, but what about if the site has been replaced or out of date? Sounds like a project in itself - checking hyperlinks. Regards, Malcolm -- KDE Proof Reading Team KDE GB English Translation Team
