Re: Cross-linking [was Re: Organization of gnome-user-docs, display in yelp]

[Eric Baudais <baudais kkpsi org>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:08:26PM +0000, Pat Costello wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2003 Sasha said: 
> 
> > Why? We have this general "ghelp" url which allows us to link from any
> > document to any other. E.g., I could put in "Intro to gnome" 
> > <ulink url="ghelp:gnome-terminal">GNOME Terminal Manual</ulink>
> >  and get a link which, when clicked in Yelp, would bring up GNOME
> > Terminal manual.  Same can be done when linking from one chapter to
> > another.  Or am I missing something?
> > 
> > What is currently impossible is to use <xref> for linking between
> > documents - but this is just a minor inconvenience. 
> > Sasha
> > 
> Eugene was talking about using the <xref> tag. Eugene has to write his source 
> files in sgml first, to go through the Sun publishing processes. Then he uses a 
> converter to create generic xml files for open-source use. He could not use the 
> ghelp url solution during this process. 

A simple XSL stylesheet could be written to substitute <xref> tags
with <link> tags using the ghelp URI.  If you want this stylesheet
written to use the ghelp URI please let me know.

Eric Baudais