Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating A TOC automatically

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:40:33PM -0700, vhikida@inreach.com wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm still a novice at Docbook and related technologies. I am
> under the impression that using <toc> </toc> will automatically cause a toc
> to be created.
> 
> I tried the following docbook xml file.
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css"
> href="http://docs.boostmyscore.com/dtd/docbook.css";?>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
> "http://docs.boostmyscore.com/dtd/docbook/docbookx.dtd"; >
> <book>
> <bookinfo>
>      <title>Docbook Test</title>
>      <date>October 1, 2002</date>
> </bookinfo>
> <toc></toc>
> <chapter id="chapter1">
> 	<title>Chapter 1</title>
> 	<para>
> This is Chapter 1 of Docbook test.
> 	</para>
> </chapter>
> <chapter id="chapter2">
> 	<title>Chapter 2</title>
> 	<para>
> This is Chapter 2 of Docbook test.
> 	</para>
> </chapter>
> </book>
> 
> I am using Xalan and chunk.xsl. No TOC is created in the html files that
> are produced. Am I doing something wrong?

Interesting.  The empty <toc> element should not
make any difference unless you have some parameters
set to process it.  What happens when you remove
the empty <toc>?  Do you get an index.html file
either way?

I'm able to process your file with both Saxon and xsltproc
and the 1.55.0 chunk stylesheet, and I get a TOC in
index.html.  I don't currently have Xalan set up to test it.

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