Dublin Core and Texinfo (Re: Enhancements to options menu)

[Karl Eichwalder]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> No. Yelp is the new help browser for GNOME 2.0.  It supports documents
>> written in Docbook XML (= normalized SGML files), man pages and info
>> pages.
>
> It may be of interest that the latest Texinfo release 4.2 can produce 
> DocBook and/or XML from a Texinfo source.

Yes, I shall tell them to give them a try.  The GNOME help system
(scrollkeeper + yelp) depends on some meta info for optimal results;
I'll keep you posted.

In short: producing HTML or DocBook or XML from texi files we have to
make sure to carry over the Dublin Core stuff:

       HTML:
   Linkname: "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML" (Kunze, 1999)
        URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
   Linkname: Recording qualified Dublin
        URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/

XML and more general:
   Linkname: Resource Description Framework (RDF) / W3C Semantic Web Activity
        URL: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
             http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/

Does somebody already work on these issues?  If not, I can do some
research and propose transformation mapping.  For a start we have to
make sure title element will be available as HTML META info:

    <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Richard Stallman">
    <meta name="DC.Title" content="GNU Emacs Manual">
    <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-US">

And for XML it may look like this (more complicate records are possible!):

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
         xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";>
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/";>
    <dc:title>GNU Emacs Manual</dc:title>
    <dc:creator>Richard Stallman</dc:creator>
    <dc:publisher>Free Software Foundation, Inc.</dc:publisher>
    <dc:date>2000-08-01</dc:date>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>


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