Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: <variablelist><abstract>

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:35:37PM +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> For the following piece of DocBook XML the DocBook XSL 1.60.1
> stylesheets don't generate HTML output for <variablelist><abstract>
> (the same for <variablelist><para>, <variablelist><simpara>).
> 
> Is there an easy way to change this?
> 
> <variablelist>
>   <title>Some Title</title>
> 
>   <abstract><para>variablelist abstract</para></abstract>
> 
>   <varlistentry>
>      <term>...
>   ...
> </variablelist>

No easy way.  Variablelist's content model was changed
in going from DocBook 4.1.2 to DocBook 4.2 DTD to permit
"stuff" before the first varlistentry.  But the XSL
stylesheets have not caught up with the change.
You could file a bug report on the DocBook SourceForge
project to get it fixed.

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