[PATCH: scrnsaverproto] Fix id attributes, linkend and olinks

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Tue Sep 27 04:17:23 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 19:03 -0600, Matt Dew wrote:

> <snip>
> 
> > Are you considering adding "xrefstyle" with pageabbrev to all xref links?
> > If so, consider this suggestion to put it in the customization layer.
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200405/msg00121.html
> > This attribute was meant to override the default in a few instances.
> >
> > Consider that we might want to change the xrefstyle at later point in time
> 
> After looking into it some more and thinking about it, here's what I'm 
> thinking.
> 
> External links = olink
> internal links = xref
> 
> xrefs and olinks,  there's a docbook 5 path. It requires some sed-lovin' 
> no matter what we do.
> 
> I like that we can style xrefs. Should we, at some point in the future, 
> decide xref is a pain and we'd prefer link,  it's sed-able. No great pain.
> 
> If no objections, this is the path I'm going,

It looks like the best solution to me. Have a look at the Apache docs.
They use olinks and it'd be interesting to see what they use for
internal links.

> Matt
> 


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