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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:00:00 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.crimea.ua>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/20056: Bad SGML in the "@ sign" entry of the FAQ
Message-ID:  <20000726200000.E19989@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000724233149.H57387@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:31:50PM %2B0100
References:  <200007211630.JAA10561@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000721225213.B51580@ark.cris.net> <20000722064931.M64132@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000724193521.B57387@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000724221513.G28657@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000724233149.H57387@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 11:31:50PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > Should these rare cases just be changed, or can you add some more magic
> > to that stuff to make the link not be created if the text is already
> > within a link?
> 
> I'm tempted to ignore them for the moment.  I've sent a message to the
> DocBook stylesheets list asking for advice.

Looks like you can't.  There's no way to query your output stream to find
out which element you're in the middle of, and apparently you don't get 
global variables which you can twiddle in the middle of the process, so you
can't keep track of the context that way either.

I say we do it anyway.

N
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