Re: DOCBOOK: Web servers in <bibliography>?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say:
| Is there a "current best practice" for Web servers (in <bibliography>? 
| outside?) and for URLs of books? How can I rewrite the following:
| 
| 	<bookbiblio>
| 	   <title>DocBook: The Definitive Guide</title>
| 	  <author>
| 	    <surname>Walsh</surname>
| 	    <firstname>Norman</firstname>
| 	  </author>
| 	  <author>
| 	    <surname>Muellner</surname>
| 	    <firstname>Leonard</firstname>
| 	  </author>
| 	  <editor>
| 	    <surname>O'Reilly</surname>
| 	  </editor>
| 	  <isbn>1-56592-580-7</isbn>
| 	  <abstract>
| 	    <para>I didn't read it yet...</para>
| 	  </abstract>
| 	</bookbiblio>
| 
| to add http://www.docbook.org/? <ulink> does not seem accepted in a 
| <bookbiblio>, except in the <abstract>.

Drop the <bookbiblio> wrapper (just put all the content in the
<biblioentry>) and use <citetitle> instead of <title>. You can put
a <ulink> in a cited title.

This suggestion follows on an observation by Terry Allen that
the titles in a bibliography entry aren't properly "titles" in
the DocBook sense, they don't name the biblioentry, they're
citations of titles of other works and so should properly be
<citetitle>.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | [The internet is] the largest
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | equivalence class in the reflexive
Member, DocBook Editorial Board    | transitive symmetric closure of
                                   | the relationship 'can be reached
                                   | by an IP packet from.'--Seth
                                   | Breidbart