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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:37:38 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New page for mailing lists / projects / resources
Message-ID:  <19981215233738.F46780@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981215202234.29778@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:22:34PM %2B0000
References:  <19981215000528.38029@nothing-going-on.org> <19981215201702.Z46780@follo.net> <19981215202234.29778@nothing-going-on.org>

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On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:22:34PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 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?

Call it &listsdir; and have me think it almost not a kludge after all
:-)

Eivind.


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