Re: [docbook] Element for an author's website URL



Hi Colin,

You can propose this for consideration by the 
DocBook Technical Committee by filing a request on the DocBook SourceForge 
site.  Use Tracker->RFEs and then Submit New.  That's the way to 
get it in the queue.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting


 

 

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  Colin 
  Shapiro 

  
To: docbook 

  
Cc:  
  

  
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:19 
AM

  
Subject: Re: [docbook] Element for an 
  author's website URL

  

[Note: I accidentally CCed the wrong list with the below 
  message.  docbook-apps, feel free to ignore.]

"The 
  link is a general purpose hypertext element."

The element I 
  propose has nothing to do with hypertext.  It is simply another part of 
  an <address>, same as <email>, <phone>, etc.  It is 
  another bit of information about how to contact a person/organization. 
  

If we already have <email>, then why not <web> or 
  <homepage>?  Also remember that an email address can be displayed 
  as hypertext as well (i.e. a mailto: link in a web browser), but it doesn't 
  have to be.  Same with a home page URL.  We don't have to use 
  <link> for an email address within <address>. 

Colin

  
On 7/24/07,  < > wrote:
  Hi,

> 
    [...]
> > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but why not use 
    link? 
>
> Because it's a link, not a URL

But a link can 
    also be a URI/URL. According to the TDG[1]:

  »The link is 
    a general purpose hypertext element. [...]
   If it has an 
    xlink:href attribute, link is the equivalent of an 
   HTML 
    anchor (<html:a href="...">) for cross reference
   with 
    a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).«

Maybe I didn't understand your 
    argument. But why introduce
another element when there is already a 
    general purpose element 
for this issue? 
    :-)

Bye,
Tom

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[1] http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/link.html