Re: [docbook-apps] DOCBOOK-APPS: index links for chunked HTML broken

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

It should work.  Index entries use the same href.target template as other
xrefs, and that template takes dbhtml dir into account.  Can you send me
(off list) a zip file containing a short example that illustrates the
problem?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denis Bradford" <denis.bradford@verizon.net>
To: "Docbook-Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DOCBOOK-APPS: index links for chunked HTML
broken


> > The link should be to the HTML, which, by the looks of it,
>  > is generated in the current directory,
>  > not to the xml which is elsewhere?
>
> Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I generate journal.html in the
> journal subdirectory (journal.xml contains <?dbhtml dir="journal"?>)
>
> That's the case where I expected index links to point to the journal
> subdirectory. Instead, they point to the base directory, as in
> <a href="journal.html#content".
>
>
> Dave Pawson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 18:47 -0500, Denis Bradford wrote:
> >
> >>Is the generated book index supposed to find HTML chunks when you create
them
> >>in different directories from the root (using either the dbhtml PI
> >>or the use.id.as.filename param)?
> >>
> >>
> >>I have a document like this:
> >>
> >><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >><!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"docbookx.dtd" [
> >><!ENTITY dummy SYSTEM "dummy.xml">
> >><!ENTITY about  SYSTEM "about.xml">
> >><!ENTITY journal SYSTEM "journal/journal.xml">
> >>]>
> >><book>
> >>&dummy;
> >>&about;
> >>&journal;
> >><index/>
> >></book>
> >>
> >>No matter what I try, the index links include only the filename, not
> >>the path information, as in <a href="journal.html#content"
> >>
> >>Am I missing something, or do I need to customize the stylesheets?
> >
> >
> > I think you're missing something Denis.
> > The link should be to the HTML, which, by the looks of it,
> > is generated in the current directory,
> > not to the xml which is elsewhere?
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
>
>
>