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Re: xref style proposal
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 03:29:34PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
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> / Jeff Beal <jeff.beal@ansys.com> was heard to say:
> | This looks like a fabulous idea. Have you given any thought to using a
> | template attribute instead of the select attribute where the author
> | specifies, instead of a pre-defined name, the exact contents of what would
> | come out of the gentext template? For example, instead of <xref
> | select="title"/>, I could put <xref template="%t"/>? This would give even
> | more flexibility to the author, and would also remove a level of indirection
> | (possible performance increase?).
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> I don't like this idea because it's very processor-specific (even if
> it is my favorite processor :-).
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> I can imagine other processors supporting "title" as a cross reference
> style, but I don't want to encourage different tools to stick code
> snippets and things in there because I think it'll damage
> interoperability.
Norm, I think you misunderstood this. Jeff is just
suggesting another source for a gentext template, which
would still be handled entirely by vanilla XSLT in the
stylesheet. There is nothing processor-specific about it.
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