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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: URLs in bibliography
On Friday 29 October 2004 09:26, Yoshihiro Toda wrote: > Hello Frans, > > At Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:21:10 +0000, > > Frans Englich wrote: > > I have a bit of trouble getting the bibliography right for URLs. I want a > > descriptive paragraph/title, and then the URL, nicely formatted. > > What about BiblioSource for URLs? like this: > > <biblioentry xreflabel="veryuseful"> > <bibliosource class="uri"> > <ulink url="http://....">Very Useful Site</ulink> > </bibliosource> > </biblioentry> > > (You may rather want to use Title element with empty ULink.) > > For descriptions, Abstract is suitable for a brief > summary. Or BiblioMisc to include more detailed information. > > > Should one reference bibliography entries with plain xrefs? (I guess so) > > Yes. In the above example, the entry can be referenced using XRef > with linkend="veryuseful". Thanks, that helped. > > > Also, how is a list of links in a section best done? That is, each > > "entry" has an description, followed by the URL slightly indented in its > > own paragraph. I tried a variablelist but the formatting didn't work(the > > term is expected to be and the listitem long). > > VariableList has TermLength attribute, so it's possible to make a > separate template for, say, "variablelist[@termlength = 'urllist']" > > > BTW, the Docbook XML Schemas are namespace aware, such that one can have > > 'xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"' in the document element > > without having to customize, right? > > Can we? It doesn't validate on my system. Apparently not :) Well, I thought so, that xmlns was a built-in, generic XML thing which was "above" the document definition. I apparently need to go study the fundamentals of XML. Thanks, Frans
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