Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119417
SELinux FAQ - anchor link doesn't follow correct linking style?
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:04:56 EDT
Description of change/FAQ addition. If a change, include the original text first, then the changed text: In the document http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/index.html there is small buglet in the link (first line): <a href="index.html#s1-fc2test1-selinux-rn">SELinux Notes and FAQ</a> Correct would be : <a href="#s1-fc2test1-selinux-rn">SELinux Notes and FAQ</a> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-faq-1.0 (2004-03-29-T16:20-0800)
There are three correct ways to use an anchor: From http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html, "Having defined the anchor, we may link to it from the same or another document. URIs that designate anchors contain a "#" character followed by the anchor name (the fragment identifier). Here are some examples of such URIs: * An absolute URI: http://www.mycompany.com/one.html#anchor-one * A relative URI: ./one.html#anchor-one or one.html#anchor-one * When the link is defined in the same document: #anchor-one" I can see where, in a purist since, since the link does not need to be relative (it's not going to another actual HTML file), it could follow the convention of when it is "defined in the same document." However, any of the methods (absolute, relative, and local) are perfectly legal and work. The reason the local #anchor method is not used is because this document is authored in DocBook, and can contain one or more <sect1> tag containers. If building with nochunks (separate HTML for each <sect1>), then the links need to be relative to find each other. Again, it could be split so that links within an HTML documents are local style, and across HTML documents are relative, this seems like unnecessary splitting of hairs. We could hack the XSL, I'm sure, to handle this special case, but it seems a little extreme, doesn't it? :) Anyway, thanks for paying attention to details like this, you never know when it counts.
The published (here : http://fedora.redhat.com/ and here : http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.91/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html ) URL of that page is http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/ When you click on the mentioned link in that page, it does not jump to the indicated position, but loads "another" page , and then jumps to the correct position. The difference is that there is extra network activity and it takes noticable longer.