Re: [generguide-devel] <xinclude> links

[Sean W. <se...@ya...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Shorter" <ca...@sh...>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:16 AM
> Sean and Artur, are you receiving emails through the
generguide email
list?
> If so, we should be able to revert back to using
just that list now.  (I
put
> in a trouble report with sourceforge and it seems to
be resolved now).

Yes

>
> On Friday 12 Sep 2003 12:41 am, Artur Hefczyc wrote:
> > > 5.  Introduce concept of GenerRepository.  Allow
generconfig to
reference
> > > sections from other GenerRepositories.  Need to
address versions,
copying
> > > images, sections from different repositories
having the same id.
> >
> > Well, I was thinking about building document from
sections with
following
> > <xinclude> use:
> > <xi:include
href="http://generguide.sf.net/guide/versionnumbers.xml"/>
> > I mean to reference parts from source, web
location and not from local
> > file system, to not force user to keep all files
localy.
> > They can be kept localy to speed processing up,
but main reference
should
> > be to source location.
>
> Yes, I agree, this will be particularly important
when creating multiple
> repositories, however we I think we can still allow
relative links.

Both mechanism work. The user should have the choice.

>
> I think we also need to introduce a GenerRepository
version number into
the
> directory structure, so we will get the following
types of links:
>
> <xi:include
href="http://gnu.org/guide/1_1_0/gpl.xml"/>
> <xi:include
href="http://gnu.org/guide/head/gpl.xml"/>
> <xi:include
href="http://gnu.org/guide/stable/gpl.xml"/>
> <xi:include href="license.xml"/>
>

If CVS is managing the files and their versions. Why
add to the path with a
version number? If a version is required, could it not
be included in the
file name. This way regardless of the file location,
the version number will
always be known.

Sean Wheller


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