Re: [docbook] Element for an author's website URL

["Nic Gibson" <nicg@corbas.net>]

On 25/07/07, Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote:
> Colin Shapiro wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I can see what you're getting at. In the last DocBook project I worked
> >> on we customised to allow <uri> in the <address> element. Would that
> >> sort of thing work for you?
> >
> >
> > Yes, <uri> is a more general name than the ones I suggested (<web> or
> > <homepage>), but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, since my suggestions
> > imply an HTTP URI, which may not always be the case.
> >
> > I think something like that would work.  In my case, all I want to do is
> > put
> > my company's website URL into <address>.
>
> Homepage is a more normal word for this?
>
> I agree with the idea too.
> An optional address element.

We used <uri> because it was important to us to track that fact that
is was the same sort of entity as the other uris in our documents. I
think that a more descriptive name is just as valid though.

nic
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