If you get "index.html" in hrefs, then
xmlto is not working correctly. The html/docbook.xsl stylesheet doesn't
know the name of the output filename, and so cannot insert a filename into the
references. When I process a qandaset document with html/docbook.xsl, all
of the hrefs start with "#".
The bit about the title is because the
stylesheets assume the root element of a document has a title. That
usually is not a bad assumption. 8^)
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook
Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From:
David De la
nuez
To: Bob Stayton
Cc:
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:11
AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Question
links when making a qandaset into HTML
Thanks for the reply,
Bob.
I get the same results using
the "html-nochunks" argument to xmlto but I have to include a title in the
qandaset or it won't work. The verbose option shows me that it is using
the current docbook.xsl sheet (sorry I am not terribly versed in the fine
points of stylesheets).
In any
case, the reason that the "index.html" is a problem is that when I include the
.proc file in an HTML file which isn't named index.html... the links aren't
correct. It strikes me as odd default behavior. It seems to a
novice such as I am that for a qandaset the answers are always going to be in
the same chunk (or file) as the questions so a simple "#id......" would work.
In any case, that seems more likely than the answers being in a file
named "index.html".
It's not a big
problem because I manually include the .proc into my HTML file, so one more
step is a trivial amount of extra work. I'm sure there's a smarter way
to do this, but this was the first that occurred to me (though I think someone
just asked a question recently about how to do something similar in a more
clever way?).
David de la
Nuez
(914)945-1167 (tie line
862-1167)
COIN-OR www.coin-or.org
"Bob Stayton"
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Re: [docbook-apps]
Question links when making a qandaset into
HTML
Hi David,
With the chunking stylesheets, all hrefs start with the filename.html.
Otherwise the stylesheet would have to compute if the target of the cross
reference is in the same chunk as the link text.
I don't understand
why the "index.html" in the href is a problem. Did you try using the
nonchunking stylesheet instead?
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook
Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: David De la
nuez
To:
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Question links when making a
qandaset into HTML
When I
convert to HTML a DB XML document with qandaset as the root element, the
question links at the top of the resulting .proc page are all of the form
"index.html#idxxxxxx". It seems to me that the "index.html" should not
be there. The only reason I care is because to reproduce on a web site
in a quick and dirty way an FAQ I have in a DB book, this is what I do.
Is this a bug or a design decision I don't understand?
FYI, to the best of my
knowledge I am using what the xmlto script uses in cygwin, namely xsltproc
with the current chunk.xsl stylesheet.
David de la
Nuez
(914)945-1167 (tie line
862-1167)
COIN-OR www.coin-or.org
