[kde-doc-english]Hyperlinks in Docs

[Lauri Watts]

On Sunday 03 March 2002 15.10, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Sunday 03 March 2002 10:45, Malcolm Hunter wrote:
> > We have &kde-http; and &kde-ftp; - how about replacing all of the
> > URLs with entities, so that it will be very easy to test dead links
> > without searching all of the docs?
>
> Searching all the docs should be very easy, it just needs a simple
> regular expression to look for links. So I don't see an advantage in
> using entities.

I think I have to agree.

There must be thousands of links in the documents, and many of them are 
translated (for example, we link to some well-known "online etiquette" 
pages in english in the knode docu, and translators have asked 
previously that they can add or replace those to links that describe 
their own national hierarchy etiquette rules, or are simply in their 
own language.  

The entity list is already almost unmanageably big, and intimidating for 
most writers, I think this would tip it far over the edge.

I do have an idea on link checking though.  When the docs online (which 
is quite soon) we can do some very simple automated link checking very 
easily, by running tools from the top of docs.kde.org and letting them 
traverse all the documents.  There's plenty of search bots and linkbots 
around that can do that, I'll see what can be done.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts