Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Simple URI's

[Ali A. <ali...@au...>]

* Ali Abdin (ali...@au...) wrote at 22:26 on 04/12/00:
> * Laszlo Kovacs (las...@su...) wrote at 16:36 on 04/12/00:
> > > Let the users use bookmarks.  On a network with multiple architectures,
> > > does "modem-HOWTO" refer to the Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris document?
> > > 
> > > If an individual user wants to create their own aliases for
> > > documentation, they should probably be able to do so.  The user can then
> > > have the burden of deciding which short name maps to which document, and
> > > is in a much better position to know that they want "modem-HOWTO" to
> > > point to the Solaris document.
> > > 
> > 
> > Or the sysadmin decides where these URI's point to depending on machine
> > type.
> 
> The "short name" should be settable by the sysadmin (for Desktop users, they
> are the sysadmins). Each doc should have by default its own shortname.

Oh, doh - if they change the short name, there goes all your cross-references.

The proper solution is to cross-reference by UUID, but that won't work...no
authors would do it then...

Regards,
Ali