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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:22:34 +0000
From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>,
        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: New page for mailing lists / projects / resources
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On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:17:02PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 12:05:28AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > What is this?
> > 
> >   This is a new structure for presenting some information on the FreeBSD
> >   web site.
> 
> I _like_ it :-)

Good. This, incidentally, is why the *BSD myths page has been so long in
production. I wanted to get this framework right first.

> >  projects.sgml and resources.sgml are HTML fragments that list the projects
> >  and resources appropriate for this list. Note that this HTML will be
> >  included in files that appear at two different positions in the tree, so 
> >  any URLs must be absolute at least as far as the root document.
> > 
> >   By that I mean you can't put in
> > 
> >     <li><a href="../foo.html">Random resource</a></li>
> > 
> >   You *must* put in code like
> > 
> >     <li><a href="/lists/foo.html">Random resource</a></li>
> > 
> >   otherwise links will break. This shouldn't be a problem, even for mirrors.
> 
> I think this is wrong.  At least www.jp.freebsd.org use a subdir for
> the normal FreeBSD pages.
> 
> Would it be possible to use some entity to refer to basepoints, or
> somesuch?

I've just had a quick think about this. It's a horrible kludge, but you
could have an &dotdotslash; entity. In list-index-template.sgml it's defined

    <!ENTITY dotdotslash "../">

and in lists/{projects|resources|lists}.sgml it's defined as

    <!ENTITY dotdotslash "">

lists/advocacy/projects.sgml would have URLs like

    <a href="&dotdotslash;hackers/index.html">...</a>

But it should only be used once in a URL. If you needed to go up two levels
you'd write

    <a href="&dotdotslash;../bar/index.html">...</a>

That would also do the right thing.

    <a href="&dotdotslash;&dotdotslash;bar/index.html">...</a>

would be wrong.

Thoughts?

N
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