On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:35 -0400, Mark Johnson wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 12:09 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > > > >>Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > >> > >> > >>>But wait! It gets easier. DocBook XML specifies that when the XML tag > >>>closes itself (i.e. you don't provide any link text), the link itself is > >>>used as the text for any rendering process. So what you should probably > >>>do instead, for better XML readability, is this: > >>> > >>><ulink url="http://some.link.to/somewhere/"/> > >> > >>Could you (or someone who has time) check this using a small example > >>with Apache FOP? This is so clever that it may not be implemented in > >>some rederers. IIRC, the tentative PDF rendering solution was to > >>involve FOP. > > > > > > Great idea -- I don't have FOP, but this is defined behavior in the > > DocBook standards (as opposed to any cleverness on my part -- I just > > read it in DocBook:TDG!), so I'll be very surprised if it doesn't > > deliver as promised. > > Keep in mind that this is the "recommended" behavior for the > stylesheets. In reality, an implementer can do whatever she wants. > > Fortunately, though, the (xsl) stylesheets are mostly developed by the > same folks who work on the DocBook schema standards, so the docbook xsl > stylesheets are likely compliant. > > > I'll yield this task to someone who has it > > installed. Is Mark Johnson out there? I thought he used FOP, but I'm > > not sure. > > I'd be happy to do a FOP build if someone can suggest an FDP doc for the > test build... Stuart's yum tutorial "yum-software-management" uses this XML syntax, so it would make a good test candidate. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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