Re: DOCBOOK: URI/URL markup in DocBook
Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently the enumerated systemitem classes include the following network related info: [...] I have encountered a frequent need for one more: url Note that this is not necessarily a clickable link like the ulink element. Rather it is a literal URL printed in text, such as Sun's home page is at systemitem class=urlhttp://www.sun.com//systemitem. I have also encountered a need to distinguish different kinds of non-resolvable URLs, specifically: XML namespace URIs SAX feature names SAX property names JAXP feature names SOAP Actions RDDL purposes RDDL natures Doubtless there are others, and more are likely to be invented in the future. For the moment, I've been using the class attribute to separate these. However, I think the time has come to add at least a url role to systemitem, or possibly skip that step completely and go straight to a url element. Questions: 1. Do we really need a uri element? or separate url, uri, urn elements? 2. Should this element have some sort of purpose or role attribute that identifies the type of the URI? For example, uri class=url role=namespacehttp://www.w3.org/TR/2001/XInclude/uri uri class=urnurn:publicid:%2B:IDN+example.org:DTD+XML+Bookmarks+1.0:EN:XML/uri During the next monthly DocBook TC telcon, the TC will discuss adding URL/URN markup to the DocBook DTD. So, can others on the list please comment on their needs/expectations regarding URN/URL markup? Specifically: * Would adding 'url' and 'urn' to the list of enumerated values for the Systemitem element be a satisfactory solution? or * Do you have a need for markup that would allow you to distinguish between different types of URLs and URNs? * If you do have such a need, what kind of URLs would you need to distinguish from one another? Elliotte: Please post any further comments/clarifications you might have regarding this. Thanks, --Mike
Re: DOCBOOK: URI/URL markup in DocBook
At 04:13 20/08/2002, Michael Smith wrote: During the next monthly DocBook TC telcon, the TC will discuss adding URL/URN markup to the DocBook DTD. So, can others on the list please comment on their needs/expectations regarding URN/URL markup? Specifically: * Would adding 'url' and 'urn' to the list of enumerated values for the Systemitem element be a satisfactory solution? No. Too similar. or * Do you have a need for markup that would allow you to distinguish between different types of URLs and URNs? No. Again, indistinguishable from a presenation aspect. Suggest its a CSS task for presentation? Regards DaveP
DOCBOOK: URI/URL markup in DocBook
Currently the enumerated systemitem classes include the following network related info: systemname domainname fqdomainname groupname ipaddress username etheraddress I have encountered a frequent need for one more: url Note that this is not necessarily a clickable link like the ulink element. Rather it is a literal URL printed in text, such as Sun's home page is at systemitem class=urlhttp://www.sun.com//systemitem. I have also encountered a need to distinguish different kinds of non-resolvable URLs, specifically: XML namespace URIs SAX feature names SAX property names JAXP feature names SOAP Actions RDDL purposes RDDL natures Doubtless there are others, and more are likely to be invented in the future. For the moment, I've been using the class attribute to separate these. However, I think the time has come to add at least a url role to systemitem, or possibly skip that step completely and go straight to a url element. Questions: 1. Do we really need a uri element? or separate url, uri, urn elements? 2. Should this element have some sort of purpose or role attribute that identifies the type of the URI? For example, uri class=url role=namespacehttp://www.w3.org/TR/2001/XInclude/uri uri class=urnurn:publicid:%2B:IDN+example.org:DTD+XML+Bookmarks+1.0:EN:XML/uri -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (IDG Books, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +--+-+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +--+-+