Re: [docbook-apps] xlink:show="new" support omits link element

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

Hi Denis,
At first I was not able to duplicate this problem.  When I processed your example in a 
Docbook 5 document with the namespaced stylesheets, I got the correct result:

<p><a class="link" href="my.mp3" target="_blank">Audio</a></p>

Then I noticed that your output included class="ulink".  That tells me your DocBook5 
document is being processed with the non-namespaced stylesheet.  That stylesheet must 
convert the DocBook5 document to a DocBook4 document before proceeding.  In the case 
of a link element with @xlink:href, it converts it to a ulink, and fails to pass along 
the xlink:show attribute because there is no comparable attribute in DocBook 4. This 
behavior is not new to 1.77.0, as I got the same incorrect results with 1.76.1.

I would suggest switching over to the namespaced version of the stylesheets if you are 
processing DocBook 5 documents to avoid such incompatibilities.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denis Bradford" <denis.bradford@verizon.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 4:40 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] xlink:show="new" support omits link element


> Version 1.77.0 adds support for xlink:show="new", so you can open an HTML link in a 
> new window instead of replacing the current window. It works for various inline 
> elements, but not for link itself. Is this a bug? For example this link
>
>   <para><link xlink:href="my.mp3" xlink:show="new">Audio</link></para>
>
> ... generates XHTML link output with the wrong target value:
>
>   <p><a class="ulink" href="my.mp3" target="_top">Audio</a></p>
>
> Changing the element from link to phrase works:
>   <para><phrase xlink:href="my.mp3" xlink:show="new">Audio</phrase></para>
>
> Resulting in the target I expect:
>    <p><span class="phrase"><a class="phrase" href="my.mp3" 
> target="_blank">Audio</a></span></p>
>
> As far as I can trace it, inline.xsl seems to omit link when it enumerates all the 
> supported elements, so simple.xlink doesn't get called.
>
> Thanks,
> Denis
>
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