Re: [docbook] Tagging social media IDs

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

On 15.09.2023 17:44, Peter Flynn wrote:
> In the absence of anything specific, I am temporarily using
>
>  ÂÂ <email role="x">docbook</email>
>
> without the "at" sign, and keeping the platform in the role attribute.
>
> Is it worth looking at adding Yet Another Element Type (eg 
> <social-media>) with a controlled vocabulary for a "platform" attribute? 
> or is it too early to define how we want to store and use these addresses?

Hi Peter,

you are right that there is not yet specific support for such kind of 
information in DocBook.

Alternative to using <email> element is to use

<systemitem class="username">@foo@mastodon.org</systemitem>

You can also add @role attribute if you need to specify to which social 
platform username belongs.

Alternatively as many social platforms provide URLs that corresponds to 
users you can use <uri> element, e.g.

<uri type="mastodon">https://mastodon.org/@foo</uri>

But I see that this might not very handy and you will have to customize 
stylesheets to strip leading part of URL for presentational purposes.

Have a nice day,

					Jirka

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