Re: Comments on Docs

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Alexander Kirillov (kirillov math sunysb edu) wrote at 16:49 on 04/09/00:
> I think it is a bad idea. db2html generates id (if there is none)
> according to the line of the original document. Thus, depending on the
> location of the <legalnotice> line in the original doc, you could get
> ln7.html, ln8.html, etc. 
> 
> It'd be much better if instead we always use 
> <legalnotice id="legalnotice"> 
> which ensures that it db2html will always produce file with name
> "legalnotice.html" 

Is it legal DocBook to have the id attribute in the legalnotice tag though? 

If yes, then I recommend we use (gnome-db2html2 will not care wether it is
there or not, but I guess db2html will)

Regards,
Ali

> On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:33:12AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Ahhhhhh! DOH - I should've guessed. Still - the only 'logical' way for me to
> > > get the license is to pretend it has its own id (that people will agree not to
> > > use in their docs). Is it okay to use say 'legalnotice' (i.e. gnome-db2html2
> > > /path/to/file.sgml?legalnotice)
> > 
> > We should use 'ln7'. db2html generally names each html file after the
> > id.  For the legalnotice, which does not have an id, it uses the filename
> > 'ln7.html', as if it had the id="ln7".
> > 
> > Generally, I think we should try to keep things as similar to db2html with
> > the gdp-both.dsl stylesheets as possible, unless we have a very good
> > reason not to.  This will prevent odd problems from creeping in and will
> > help us out with integrating Dewey since Dewey's targets must work for
> > both db2html and gnome-db2html2.  Thus, naming targets which do not have
> > an explicit id should be done in a similar way to db2html.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
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