RE: [docbook-apps] <link linkend> in XHTML output

["David Cramer" <dcramer@motive.com>]

You may also be able to get around the problem using a[href]{} in your
css instead of just a{}: 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.docbook.apps/19015/

David
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael(tm) Smith [mailto:smith@sideshowbarker.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:21 AM
> To: Andy Smith
> Cc: DocBook Apps
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] <link linkend> in XHTML output
> 
> Andy Smith <andy.docbook@zambezi.org.uk>, 2008-10-02 06:49 +0100:
> 
> > 2008/10/1 Lillian Sullam <lsullam@bruxton.com>:
> > > 2. In every part of my chunked document the text reacts to any 
> > > "hovering" of the mouse.  This should not happen, not all 
> of the text is a link.
> > [...]
> > > I have a feeling this has to do with the <a> tag being 
> closed with a "/"
> > > instead of </a>, but why is this happening?
> > 
> > I think you're right, and you'll see the behaviour you describe if 
> > your browser is interpreting the file as plain HTML rather 
> than XHTML.
> > In plain HTML the </a> closing tag is mandatory, and I guess the 
> > browser is treating the <a.../> as an opening tag (and acting as if 
> > there's a closing tag later in the document) rather than an empty 
> > element.
> 
> Yep, because browsers don't parse text/html content as XML -- 
> they parse it as HTML, and in the HTML syntax that browsers 
> support, <a.../> means the same thing as <a...> (the HTML 
> parsers in browsers pay no attention to that slash).
> 
> That's just one of several reasons why it's not a good idea 
> to serve XSLT-generated output@method=xml content as text/html.
> 
> [...]
> > If you use the stylesheets' HTML rather than XHTML output I think 
> > you'll get closing tags and results that will generally be 
> OK with the 
> > text/html content type.
> 
> I think that's the best advice in general. For most cases, 
> there is zero harm in generating HTML content from XSLT using 
> output@method=html and much good in that it will prevent the 
> <a.../> problem, and others too.
> 
>   --Mike
> 
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