Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 15:09:02 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: DocBook, multiple files, and links Message-ID: <19970519150902.46095@blueberry.co.uk>
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How do, I'm a bit of a DocBook neophyte, learning by example and by working my way through the information at http://www.ora.com/davenport/. So far, things are going fairly well. However, one thing's got me stumped so far. I'm trying to put together some documentation about e-mail, and how it's handled. So far, I've subdivided the topic into several ``books'', one for sendmail, one for procmail, one for Majordomo, and so on. Each of these books has several chapters. I can produce HTML files from these books with no problems. However, now I want to include links from one book to another. The procmail book should include links back to some of the chapters in the sendmail book, and so on. The question is, how do I do this properly? I could use the <ulink ...> tag. But I'm then hardcoding some URLs into the DocBook file that I don't really want to do. If I use <xref ...> (which I think I should be) it doesn't handle xrefs to documents that are held in a different file. If I try and merge these books together into one big file then I get one big HTML file, not what I want either. I'm using sgmls and instant, as documented at http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber/docbook/markupguide.html I guess I'm missing something obvious, but I can't see what. Any and all suggestions gratefully received. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Those who do not read Dilbert are doomed to repeat it ]ENTP
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