DOCBOOK: Re: Linking in DocBook V5.0

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> was heard to say:
| > | Popup a list to select an item from (or somethink).  Make it a
| > | backlinked standalone document.
| > 
| > I don't know how to do that in any of the popular presentation systems.
| 
|   I don't know any popular direct DocBook renderer either, does
| this mean we are loosing our time using it ;-) ?

I don't think so, but I'm probably biased. I don't think your analogy
holds, though. My point is that there aren't any popular presentation
systems (at all) that reasonably handle multi-ended links in an
interoperable way. If there were, we could filter DocBook to them.

The fact that there's no native DocBook presentation system is neither
here nor there.


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                                          norm

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