DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: xref style proposal

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/ Jeff Beal <> was heard to say:
| This looks like a fabulous idea.  Have you given any thought to using a
| template attribute instead of the select attribute where the author
| specifies, instead of a pre-defined name, the exact contents of what would
| come out of the gentext template?  For example, instead of <xref
| select="title"/>, I could put <xref template="%t"/>?  This would give even
| more flexibility to the author, and would also remove a level of indirection
| (possible performance increase?).

I don't like this idea because it's very processor-specific (even if
it is my favorite processor :-).

I can imagine other processors supporting "title" as a cross reference
style, but I don't want to encourage different tools to stick code
snippets and things in there because I think it'll damage
interoperability.


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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