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Re: Using glossterms to refer to refentries
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: BigSmoke <bigsmoke at home dot nl>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:55:15 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Using glossterms to refer to refentries
- References: <200212071721.17838.bigsmoke@home.nl>
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/ BigSmoke <bigsmoke@home.nl> was heard to say:
| I'm having a tight semantic problem: I have many things in my document which
| are described by refentries. However, I want to point to these as if it where
| glossentries. Am I abusing semanticas if I where to do the following?
|
| <glossterm linkend='refentry-myObject'>myObject</glossterm>
I think so. Why do you want to treat them as glossary entries if
they're reference pages? Are they semantically glossary terms as far
as your concerned?
Why do you want glossterm instead of simply 'link' or 'xref'?
Be seeing you,
norm
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http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | nor anyone. No one to notice that
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | there is nothing, and to consider
| that natural. But that there is
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| be, the strange thing! I shall
| never cease being amazed at
| this.--André Gide
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