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Subject: DOCBOOK: RFE: online values for pubwork
I've submitted the following RFE at sourceforge. Comments are appreciated. In DocBook 4.2 the citetitle element has these seven enumerated values for the pubwork attribute, all denoting various kinds of traditional print publishing: article book chapter journal manuscript part refentry section series set However, more and more often, important, citeable work is being published first or only online. This is especially true in DocBook's domain of technical documentation. While occasionally one of the above fits an online publication (e.g. pubwork="journal" can equally well describe an online journal as a paper one), there are many other cases, where this is not true. For example, here's a citation of an e-mail message posted to xml-dev that I've included in my next book: <footnote> <para> <citetitle> <ulink url="http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Jan-2000/1085.html">Re: Attribute normalisation and character entities</ulink> </citetitle>, posted on the xml-dev mailing list, January 27, 2000 </para> </footnote> I propose the addition of at least three new values for pubwork: e-mail: An e-mail message, generally though not necessarily one posted to a public list. webpage: A web page, normally though not necessarily written in HTML and accessible at a certain URL on a certain date. An alternative would be a "url" value for any resource that is addressable by a URL. news: A posting to a Usenet newsgroup Alternately, it might be reasonable to subsume all three of these cases (and several less common ones besides) into a single "online" value. However, it is increasingly clear that the current set is too limiting. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 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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