[tei-council] Target of links in Guidelines generation

[James Cummings]

Martin,

I'm not aware of any deal-breaker issue, and agree with you that 
relative links would be desirable.  That doesn't mean that if you 
change them things won't break horribly, just that I'm ignorant 
of what those things might be. ;-)

-James

On 10/08/12 21:26, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 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
>


-- 
Dr James Cummings, researchsupport at it.ox.ac.uk
Research Support, IT Services, University of Oxford