Re: [docbook-apps] Query: bug in <citation>#PCDATA</citation>

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Ron Catterall wrote:

> #PCDATA is allowed in <citation> (Docbook 4 manual), but transformation 
> to xhtml produces warning messages which suggest that the content of 
> <citation> is assumed to be a <biblioref>.  The XHTML output inserts [ 
> and ] around the #PCDATA within <citation></citation> as it would do if 
> this were a <biblioref>. Same for <citation> a child of <para> or 
> <attribution>.
> 
> The Warning messages produced are:
> Citation to nonexistent publication abbrev: 35-36
> Citation to nonexistent publication abbrev: 13-16

I think that this behavior is completely aligned with TDG. See:

http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/citation.html

"The content of a Citation is assumed to be a reference string, perhaps 
identical to an abbreviation in an entry in a Bibliography."

Why do you think that this is a bug?

> FO transformation to PDF with XEP 4.6 interprets the <citation> 
> correctly - no warning or error messages, and no [ and ] wrapped around 
> the citation.

Then this is bug in FO stylesheets that should be fixed.

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