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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: <ULink>
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:17:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wh90gyodgt.fsf@viffer.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Norman Walsh's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 06:22:17 -0500"

>>>>> 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!


  reply	other threads:[~1998-11-26 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-26 11:07 <ULink> Steinar Bang
1998-11-26 11:22 ` <ULink> Norman Walsh
1998-11-26 12:17   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1998-11-26 14:05     ` <ULink> Norman Walsh
1998-11-27 14:43       ` <ULink> Jari Aalto+list.ding

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