Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..)

[Norman Walsh]

/ Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu> was heard to say:
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Norman Walsh [ mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com ]
| > SGML doesn't really have a good cross-document linking 
| > solution (though
| > you can cobble one together, see my tutorials about olink on 
| > nwalsh.com).

http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/olinksemantics.html

| it, but I'd appreciate a pointer if you read this before I find it.  There
| really needs to be a good way to link between separate documents for a lot
| of things.  That's one of the biggest problems that the LDP has right now.
| It's very hard to reference other documents because all you can do is say
| "read document named X", and not do a very good job linking to that
| document, or even better, to a specific section of that document.

It's one of the biggest problems XML has right now, IMHO. It should
be/will/is possible to build a solution with XPointer and XLink, but I
don't know of an out-of-the-box one available now.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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