On 27 Aug 2003 11:33:50 +0200, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > This problem could be solved by allowing links in the help pages to > point to the registered identifiers instead of pointing directly to > HTML pages. So when the text-tool help wants to link to the move-tool, > it would use something like > > <link gimp-help:href="gimp-move-tool" /> > > and the help-browser would have to use it's mapping file to find the > HTML page from the identifier. The problem with this solution is that it will prevent the help system from ever working in a standard browser. Wouldn't it be better to pre-process all files at build time or installation time and generate standard XHTML? If this is done at installation time, we could write a tool that updates the cross-references as necessary (this "we" could be me, if nobody else is interested). > As a last note, let me outline a small error in the proposal I just > made. Since <link /> is not part of XHTML, we should check if there's > an element we can (ab)use or we need to introduce a namespace for the > link element (or whatever it would be called). Well, <link /> is part of XHTML, but it is only allowed inside <head>. If you want to add a cross-reference, the best element to choose would be <a>, even if you use it with non-standard attributes. -Raphaël
