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Re: Docbook : Cross reference between Books
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- To: "Philip U. Sam" <philip at osc dot no>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:10:03 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Docbook : Cross reference between Books
- References: <200302211709.h1LH9WU06207@serum.osc.no>
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:09:32PM +0100, Philip U. Sam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are using docbook 3.1 and planned to use the latest docbook4.2 in
> SGML. And we use DSL/DSSL stylesheet.
>
> Is it possible to cross reference a docbook book's sections from another
> docbook book's section?
>
> Xref is only for within the docbook book, if I am right?!
Yes, olinks are meant for cross referencing between
documents. In 4.2, there are two kinds of olinks.
The older entity-based processing is still usable in
the SGML version with DSSSL. The newer XSLT-based processing
is only implemented in the XSL stylesheets for XML.
The entity-based version is documented in:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/dsssl/current/doc/olinksemantics.html
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