Re: DOCBOOK: Re: [docbook-tc] DocBook Technical Committee MeetingMinutes: 17 Dec 2002

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:38:35AM -0600, Paul Grosso wrote:
> At 14:47 2002 12 17 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
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> >| DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 17 Dec 2002
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> >| 6. Instance-based cross-reference text
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> >We add a style attribute. Its use would be stylesheet dependent. One
> >kind of use is 'named styles' which the stylesheet can apply. Another
> >kind is a select process where individual components of the style
> >attribute are pulled together appropriately.
> >
> >SC: XFormat or XRefFormat?
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> >We already have 'format' which is a notation for graphic formats.
> >
> >NH: In that case I would prefer style.
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> >Proposal: We will add an 'xrefstyle' attribute to xref, olink, link, and ulink.
> >It's CDATA and its values are processor-defined.
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> >Accepted.
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> What, if anything, are we going to say about the syntax/semantics
> of this attribute's value?  Are we going to describe the syntax
> Bob proposed so that, for example, the DocBook XSL stylesheets
> can make use of it?

I think we can provide the syntax of the DocBook XSL
stylesheets as an example of how the attribute might be
used.  But other Docbook stylesheets are free to use it
otherwise.  Not that there are other DocBook XSL stylesheets
(are there?).

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