Hi Colin,
You can propose this for consideration by the
DocBook Technical Committee by filing a request on the DocBook SourceForge
site. Use Tracker->RFEs and then Submit New. That's the way to
get it in the queue.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:19
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Subject: Re: [docbook] Element for an
author's website URL
[Note: I accidentally CCed the wrong list with the below
message. docbook-apps, feel free to ignore.]
"The
link is a general purpose hypertext element."
The element I
propose has nothing to do with hypertext. It is simply another part of
an <address>, same as <email>, <phone>, etc. It is
another bit of information about how to contact a person/organization.
If we already have <email>, then why not <web> or
<homepage>? Also remember that an email address can be displayed
as hypertext as well (i.e. a mailto: link in a web browser), but it doesn't
have to be. Same with a home page URL. We don't have to use
<link> for an email address within <address>.
Colin
On 7/24/07, tom_schr@web.de <tom_schr@web.de > wrote:
Hi,
>
[...] > > Maybe I am missing something obvious, but why not use
link? > > Because it's a link, not a URL
But a link can
also be a URI/URL. According to the TDG[1]:
»The link is
a general purpose hypertext element. [...] If it has an
xlink:href attribute, link is the equivalent of an HTML
anchor (<html:a href="...">) for cross reference with
a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).«
Maybe I didn't understand your
argument. But why introduce another element when there is already a
general purpose element for this issue?
:-)
Bye, Tom
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