Re: [docbook-apps] Generating title for "link" element

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

OK, the stylesheets are set up to generate common attributes, but not all of them are turned on.  In the case of the title attribute, it can be generated by creating a template in your customization layer with a match on link element and mode="html.title.attribute", and the stylesheet will insert it on the <a> output element for link: 

 

<xsl:template match="link" mode="html.title.attribute">
  <xsl:attribute name="title">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: redlettucemail

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Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 1:36 AM

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Generating title for "link" element

Bob,

Yes, I would like a title attribute on the <a> element. I can specify a title for xlink:title, but the XML is then not valid. I can, however, still transform it to XHTML, but the title does not appear within the <a> element in the XHTML code. I can see that in the stylesheet inline.xsl, template "simple.xlink" SHOULD generate a title, but does not. I have declared xlink correctly in all my stylesheets.

 

So because the inline stylesheet doesn't work, I'm looking for a workaround that lets me generate an <a> title from the content of the link element.
 

Dave Gardiner