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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Removing newlines between <para>s


Yes, that is funny, as in funny strange. With the stock DocBook XSL stylesheets, my output to PDF using FOP 1.1 shows a blank line between paras, in both cases. Removing the line break between paras does not remove the blank line in the output.

So I would like to ask about how you are processing your document, and whether you have customized the DocBook stylesheet to generate your output. If you want to send me your stylesheet customization off list I could take a look.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/23/2016 12:50 AM, Shikareva, Ekaterina wrote:
Hello Bob!

Thank you for your answer.

The funny thing about <para>Some text</para> <para>Some text</para>
is that these paras are represented as two consecutive paragraphs
when they are inside, for example, a <section>. But when they are
inside a table's (informaltable's in my case) entry, then an empty
line is inserted between them for some reason.

<para>Some text</para><para>Some text</para> - this variant is
displayed as two consecutive paragraphs always, without any empty
line between them either inside an informaltable or outside.

Basically, the main goal was to get rid of this empty line in tables.
It's a pity I can't insert screenshots in this message, it would be
easier to explain :)

We are fighting this empty line now with some more complicated Perl
scripting, because preserving nice indenting is also an important
task for us.

-- Ekaterina Shikareva.

-----Original Message----- From: Bob Stayton
[mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] Sent: Montag, 22. August 2016 19:44 To:
Shikareva, Ekaterina; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re:
[docbook-apps] Removing newlines between <para>s

Hi Ekaterina, I'm not completely clear on what you need here.  In
terms of DocBook XML, these two representations are semantically
identical:

<para>Some text</para> <para>Some text</para>

and

<para>Some text</para><para>Some text</para>

That is, white space between block elements like para is not
considered significant, and will be ignored in any further processing
to generate output.  So these two representations will produce
identical output.

If your cleanup XSLT includes <xsl:output indent="yes"/>, then that
is a global setting and is the reason why the two paras are on
separate lines.  If you set indent="no", then those line breaks won't
be added, but then line breaks won't be added anywhere.  Turning off
the line breaks only within <entry> might be accomplished if you use
<xsl:preserve-space> and <xsl:strip-space> in some combination, but I
haven't tried it.

If instead you are asking that the content of the para elements be
merged into a single para in the output, then that's a different
thing.

Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/19/2016 7:48 AM, Shikareva, Ekaterina wrote:
Hello,



I have a task to combine a single DocBook XML file from several
other source DocBook XML files. This is done with some Perl script.
Next, I'm trying to prettify the result (also from inside my Perl
script) using the following xslt stylesheet:



<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:copy-of select="."/>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>



In this resulting XML, I get the following formatting:



<section>

<title>Title</title>

<informaltable>

<tgroup cols="2">

<colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry>Some text</entry>

<entry>

<para>Some text</para>

<para>Some text</para>

</entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</section>



But I need the <para>s inside the <entry> to stick together:



<section>

<title>Title</title>

<informaltable>

<tgroup cols="2">

<colspec colname="col2" colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry>Some text</entry>

<entry>

<para>Some text</para><para>Some text</para>

</entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</section>



Even if these <para>s are on the same line in my source file, in
the combined file they jump to different lines because of the
formatting and indenting.



What changes shall I introduce in my xslt stylesheet to solve
this?



Thank you!



--

Best regards,



Ekaterina Shikareva

Senior Technical Writer




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