RE: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools. ..)

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:03 AM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Linking collections (was: RE: I'm trying to set up
> docbook-tools. ..)
> 
> / Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu> was heard to say:
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> | > SGML doesn't really have a good cross-document linking 
> | > solution (though
> | > you can cobble one together, see my tutorials about olink on 
> | > nwalsh.com).
> 
> http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/doc/olinksemantics.html

For anybody who hasn't read this, here's fair warning about it being a wee
little bit hard to understand.  No offense, please, I'm just having a very
hard time understanding this, perhaps because I've only got about 6 months
working with SGML.  As an example "The format of generated text is
controlled by the XRefLabel attribute on the ModeSpec pointed to by the
OLink."  I've got to work REAL hard to figure out just what that means.
I'll try to come up with as many questions as I can, and post them here(?)
as soon as I get them into some semblance of order.  One other note, I think
that your entity definitions are hosed, as I see &ldquo; and others in the
HTML version of this file.  Thanks,
	Grego