<ULink>

<ULink>

[Steinar Bang]

Lately I've seen URLs marked in this way on USENET articles:

<ULink URL= "http://www.mico.org/">MICO - a GNU ORB</ULink> - being
used by the KDE desktop project

Does anyone know if this is some sort of new standard?  Or if someone
is trying to introduce a new convention?  Or maybe someone has been
cutting and pasting from an SGML or XML document of some sort?

The "culprit" in this case, was
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Re: <ULink>

[Norman Walsh]

/ Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> was heard to say:
| Lately I've seen URLs marked in this way on USENET articles:
| 
| <ULink URL= "http://www.mico.org/">MICO - a GNU ORB</ULink> - being
| used by the KDE desktop project
| 
| Does anyone know if this is some sort of new standard?  Or if someone
| is trying to introduce a new convention?  Or maybe someone has been
| cutting and pasting from an SGML or XML document of some sort?

That's the URL linking element used in the DocBook DTD; see
http://nwalsh.com/docbook/

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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Re: <ULink>

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>:

> / Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> was heard to say:
>> Lately I've seen URLs marked in this way on USENET articles:
>> 
>> <ULink URL= "http://www.mico.org/">MICO - a GNU ORB</ULink> - being
>> used by the KDE desktop project

>> Does anyone know if this is some sort of new standard?  Or if someone
>> is trying to introduce a new convention?  Or maybe someone has been
>> cutting and pasting from an SGML or XML document of some sort?

> That's the URL linking element used in the DocBook DTD; see
> http://nwalsh.com/docbook/

OK.  So it's probably just the result of cut'n paste from some SGML
source?  The source for a linux HOWTO maybe?  Hm... no... they use a
DTD called linuxdoc, it looks like...

Oh well!

Re: <ULink>

[Norman Walsh]

| OK.  So it's probably just the result of cut'n paste from some SGML
| source?  The source for a linux HOWTO maybe?  Hm... no... they use a
| DTD called linuxdoc, it looks like...

I believe that many (most, all, some?) linux documentation is being
migrated from linuxdoc to DocBook.  See also http://www.sgmltools.org/

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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                                   | political view or strange religion
                                   | there exists a proponent on the
                                   | Net. The proof is left as an
                                   | exercise for your kill-file.

Re: <ULink>

[Jari Aalto+list.ding]

|Thu 1998-11-26 Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> list.ding
| | OK.  So it's probably just the result of cut'n paste from some SGML
| | source?  The source for a linux HOWTO maybe?  Hm... no... they use a
| | DTD called linuxdoc, it looks like...
| 
| I believe that many (most, all, some?) linux documentation is being
| migrated from linuxdoc to DocBook.  See also http://www.sgmltools.org/

Latest Linux journal had an article of SGMLtools 2, where is was specifically
stated that the Linux specific DTD will be abandoned as soon as SGMLTools 2
appears. Instead the DocBook DTD is now the only DTD they continue to use.

The transition phase from Linux DTD to DocBook (support for old DTD) is
6 months after SGMLTools 2 has been puslished. 

jari