DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com> was heard to say:
| On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:32:19PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
| > We could do it that way, but I think the implementation burden would
| > be even higher. Most XML systems don't have support for AF directly, so it
| > would all have to be constructed with stylesheets or something.
| 
| Not knowing much about XSLT yet, I wonder whether an XSLT program
| could be written to implement AF support, so that all XML systems
| easily get AF support ?

It could, I think. But it would make the DocBook tool chain even more
complex and it's complex enough, I think. Until AF support is widely used
and understood by the XML community, I'm inclined not to require it.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | To create a little flower is the
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