From owner-freebsd-doc  Tue Dec 15 14:37:53 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07608
          for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:37:53 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07585
          for <doc@freebsd.org>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:37:44 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net)
Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218])
	by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA20657;
	Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:37:38 +0100 (CET)
Received: (from eivind@localhost)
	by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA51196;
	Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:37:38 +0100 (MET)
Message-ID: <19981215233738.F46780@follo.net>
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
References: <19981215000528.38029@nothing-going-on.org> <19981215201702.Z46780@follo.net> <19981215202234.29778@nothing-going-on.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i
In-Reply-To: <19981215202234.29778@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:22:34PM +0000
Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

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.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message