[docbook-apps] Re: URLs in bibliography

[Yoshihiro Toda <ystoda at yahoo dot co dot jp>]

Hello Frans,

At Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:21:10 +0000,
Frans Englich wrote:
> I have a bit of trouble getting the bibliography right for URLs. I want a 
> descriptive paragraph/title, and then the URL, nicely formatted.

What about BiblioSource for URLs?  like this:

<biblioentry xreflabel="veryuseful">
  <bibliosource class="uri">
    <ulink url="http://....";>Very Useful Site</ulink>
  </bibliosource>
</biblioentry>

(You may rather want to use Title element with empty ULink.)

For descriptions, Abstract is suitable for a brief
summary. Or BiblioMisc to include more detailed information.

> Should one reference bibliography entries with plain xrefs? (I guess so)

Yes.  In the above example, the entry can be referenced using XRef
with linkend="veryuseful".

> Also, how is a list of links in a section best done? That is, each "entry" has 
> an description, followed by the URL slightly indented in its own paragraph. I 
> tried a variablelist but the formatting didn't work(the term is expected to 
> be and the listitem long).

VariableList has TermLength attribute, so it's possible to make a
separate template for, say, "variablelist[@termlength = 'urllist']"

> BTW, the Docbook XML Schemas are namespace aware, such that one can have 
> 'xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";' in the document element without 
> having to customize, right?

Can we?  It doesn't validate on my system.
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Yoshihiro Toda
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