Re: [docbook-apps] customize xref to title

["Kevin Dunn" <kdunn@hsc.edu>]

Thanks, that was it. I had customized my print stylesheets to print page numbers as desired. But to build the index I run docbook2html first. Since I had not customized the html stylesheets, they were giving me the error message. Thanks.

Kevin M. Dunn
Professor of Chemistry
Hampden-Sydney College

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Neil Roeth <neil@occamsrazor.net>
Date:  Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:14:47 -0500

>On Jan 23, Kevin Dunn (kdunn@hsc.edu) wrote:
> > I would like to allow xrefs to titles. I have customized my dsl stylesheets to generate the page number on which the title appears, so, for example:
> > 
> > <xref linkend="A_SECTION"/><xref linkend="TITLE_OF_SECTION"/>
> > 
> > Produces the text:
> > 
> > Section 6.7 (p. 68)
> > 
> > The stylesheet works perfectly, but jade complains:
> > 
> > [xref to title unsupported]
> > 
> > This is just an annoyance, since the pdf target is correcly generated, but I would like to get rid of the error messages.
> > How can I customize the dtd to allow xref to titles? I tried:
> > 
> > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1/docbookx.dtd";[
> > <!ENTITY % local.title.attrib "xref">
> > 
> >  but that didn't do it. 
>
>It appears to me that message is generated in the common/dbl1en.dsl file, and
>you need to add an item to en-xref-strings (in the same file), something like this:
>
>(list (normalize "title") "")
>
>I defined this to be an empty string because I presume you do some special
>handling to get the page number and format the text so that the result is like
>your example above, so that the normal generation of the xref string is not
>needed.
>
>I think you could either create a local copy of the dbl1en.dsl file and make
>sure it gets used instead of the standard one, or you might be able to just
>append the new item to the variable en-xref-strings in your custom stylesheet.
>
>-- 
>Neil Roeth
>