Re: DOCBOOK: URI/URL markup in DocBook

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 8:13 PM +0900 8/20/02, Michael Smith wrote:


>   * Do you have a need for markup that would allow you to distinguish
>     between different types of URLs and URNs?

Yes.
>   * If you do have such a need, what kind of URLs would you need to
>     distinguish from one another?
>

In particular I often need to style resolvable and nonresolvable URLs 
differently. I generally place resolvable URLs into italics and 
nonresolvable URLs into monospace.

I do not think it's plausible or desirable to list all possible 
different categories of URLs with different elements. However, class 
and role attributes like those used on systemitem would be 
conceivable. Possibly the element should be called uri, the class 
attribute used to distinguish URLs from URNs, and the role attribute 
to specify SAX ferature URLs, namespace URLs, etc. On the other hand, 
URNs are not in common use and it might be better to just have a url 
element with class used for predefined classes and role used for 
user-created classes as on systemitem.
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