discuss: Re: In HTML, "render" all headings as anchors
Subject:
Re: RFE: In HTML, "render" all headings as anchors
From:
Hugo van der Kooij ####@####.####
Date:
20 Mar 2002 22:50:22 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203202329480.28399-100000@ultra1.hugo.vanderkooij.org>
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
> David Merrill wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:56:38AM -0500, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > > In "rendering" HOWTOs as HTML, could all HTML headings be rendered as
> > > anchors?
> > >
> > > As an example, it might be useful to link to headings like "Fibbing to
> > > Linux" or "Fibbing to Windows95" rather than, for example, the entire
> > > chapter (http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO-4.html) or even
> > > numbered chapter headings (like
> > > http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO-4.html#bios_pnp_os).
> >
> > You can already do this by assigning the title an id of its own. Am I
> > missing something or are you? :-)
>
> Well, I'm not sure. ;-) I think what you are saying that is, as the
> author of a HOWTO I can arrange to make any title (heading) an anchor by
> assigning it an id.
>
> What I'm looking for is the ability, as a HOWTO reader, not author, to
> link to any heading. One way would be to have each author assign an id
> to each heading, but I was hoping for a more generic approach, where the
> SGML to HTML conversion tools automatically create the anchors.
If the author uses id (as in: <question id="Q.project.whatis">) you can
use it as an anchor.
But these ID are also relevant within the document. At least that is how
it work with my documents and the way I process them.
The SGML tag above would become
http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/docs/Nessus-FAQ.html#Q.PROJECT.WHATIS on my
site.
If the question is dropped from the FAQ the anchor becomes useless. If one
does not use the ID part you get anchors like #AE418
But I'm not sure we are actually referring to the same thing.
Hugo.
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