[tei-council] Target of links in Guidelines generation

[Martin Holmes]

Sorry, I expressed myself really stupidly there. What I meant was:

"I'm surprised that these hard-coded links appear, and I think they 
should be relative instead, but perhaps there's a reason they're done 
like that -- if you know of one, let me know."

I've found lots of places in the XSLT where links like this are 
constructed. I see no reason why we couldn't get rid of them, but but 
maybe Sebastian or someone else is aware of a deal-breaker issue. One 
annoyance for regular users would be that if you customize the 
guidelines to build yourself a special version for your project, all the 
links will go back to the main TEI site.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-08-10 12:21 PM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Martin probably meant to ask if anyone thinks it _shouln't_ happen.  I
> agree with him that it should.
>
> On 8/10/2012 12:58 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I regularly use the "last successful build" version of the guidelines
>> provided by our jenkins servers to see the current state of the glines,
>> and I occasionally point other people to it. One thing that's a bit
>> annoying when you do that is that links in the reference pages are
>> generated hard-coded to the release version of the glines on the TEI
>> site. So if you go here:
>>
>> <http://teijenkins.hcmc.uvic.ca:8080/job/TEIP5-Documentation/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Guidelines-web/en/html/ref-variantEncoding.html>
>>
>> you'll see that the link to the relevant chapter dealing with
>> <variantEncoding/>  points to
>> <http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/TC.html#TCAPEN>.
>>
>> It would be nice if these could be turned into relative links, so that
>> when you browse around the latest state of the glines, you don't find
>> yourself jumping out to the release version without realizing it.
>>
>> Before I start trying to figure out where and how this happens, does
>> anyone think it _should_ happen? Would there be any disadvantage to
>> making these links relative?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)