Re: [docbook-apps] Creating HTML Links that Open in a New Window

["Colin Shapiro" <cmshapiro@gmail.com>]

Hi Raymond,

If I was faced with this problem, I'd try solving it through a customization layer.

You could copy the template that matches "ulink" in xref.xsl, and add an attribute to the html element <a> (as I have written on the last line in the below example):

<xsl:template match="ulink" name="ulink">
  <xsl:param name="url" select="@url"/>
  <xsl:variable name="link">
    <a>
      <xsl:if test="@id or @xml:id">
        <xsl:attribute name="name">
          <xsl:value-of select="(@id|@xml:id)[1]"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:if>
      <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="$url"/></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="target">_blank</xsl:attribute>
      ...

Or, if you don't want this behavior for all of your links, you could make a new template that matches a ulink with a given role attribute:

<xsl:template match="ulink[@role='newwindow']">

Hope this helps.

Colin



If I was faced with this problem, I would

On 3/17/07, Raymond < support@wintunnel.com> wrote:

How does one create links than open in a new window for html output of

<a href=""document.html"" target="_blank">external link</a>
or
<a href=""document.html"" rel="external">external link</a>

in DocBook 5?

<article ... xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
...
...
<link ns1:type="simple" ns1:show="new" ns1:href=""document.html" ">external
link</link>
...
...
</article>

does not produce the desired result (no new window)

Using most current releases of docbook-xml (rng) and docbook-xsl

Raymond






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