Putting relatedlink elements in info is fine with me. Should we create a
relatedlinks wrapper for them, or allow a random scattering of relatedlink
elements in info?
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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From: "Scott Hudson" <>
To: "Norman Walsh" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] proposal: add relatedlink element to topic
>I like Norm's suggestion. Related links "feels" more like metadata than
>inline content, and as the documentation states: "Many of the elements in
>this wrapper may be used in presentation..."
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> --Scott
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> Norman Walsh wrote:
>> "Bob Stayton" <> writes:
>>
>>> A relatedlink element provides a solution to this problem. Instead of
>>> an explicit cross reference, an author can insert a relatedlink
>>> element at any point in a topic element like an indexterm.
>>>
>>
>> Index terms have to be located inline because their location
>> identifies a target for a cross-reference. In the case of relatedlink,
>> it sounds like the relationship is from (some parent of) the
>> relatedlink element to some other place.
>>
>> If a relatedlink element appears in a para in a section in a chapter
>> in a part in a book in a set, what determines the granularity of the
>> link source?
>>
>> It sounds to me like perhaps relatedlink should be allowed inside an
>> info wrapper and not in inline content.
>>
>>
>>> Allowing relatedlink elements to appear inline permits them to be kept
>>> close to the text they are related to. Then if the text is deleted, so
>>> is the relatedlink. If the text is modified, then the relatedlink can
>>> be evaluated by the author to see if it is still relevant.
>>>
>>
>> Can you give a concrete example of a relatedlink element?
>>
>> Be seeing you,
>> norm
>>
>>
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