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Subject: DOCBOOK: URI/URL markup in DocBook
Currently the enumerated systemitem classes include the following network related info: systemname domainname fqdomainname groupname ipaddress username etheraddress I have encountered a frequent need for one more: url Note that this is not necessarily a clickable link like the ulink element. Rather it is a literal URL printed in text, such as "Sun's home page is at <systemitem class="url">http://www.sun.com/</systemitem>." I have also encountered a need to distinguish different kinds of non-resolvable URLs, specifically: XML namespace URIs SAX feature names SAX property names JAXP feature names SOAP Actions RDDL purposes RDDL natures Doubtless there are others, and more are likely to be invented in the future. For the moment, I've been using the class attribute to separate these. However, I think the time has come to add at least a url role to systemitem, or possibly skip that step completely and go straight to a url element. Questions: 1. Do we really need a uri element? or separate url, uri, urn elements? 2. Should this element have some sort of purpose or role attribute that identifies the type of the URI? For example, <uri class="url" role="namespace">http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/XInclude</uri> <uri class="urn">urn:publicid:%2B:IDN+example.org:DTD+XML+Bookmarks+1.0:EN:XML</uri> -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (IDG Books, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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