Re: DOCBOOK: link

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Christoph Spiel <cspiel@hammersmith-consulting.com> was heard to say:
| On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:07:01PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
| > / Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM> was heard to say:
| > | But why not just put the id="refidref" attribute in the
| > | <appendix> start tag and drop the <anchor> (heh heh, sorry
| > | about the pun).
| > 
| > That's what I'd do. But I fixed the bug, too :-)
| 
| Actually, I do *not* consider this a bug and therefore the fix
| inappropriate (Sorry, Norm!).  The xml-syntax uses tags as generalized
| braces, thus it is to be expected that everything within the braces is
| treated the same.  Why should <anchor> be an exception?

The purpose of an anchor is to provide an ID for a location. There should
be exactly one occurrence of that ID, that's the point. It happens that
there was a bug, I really think it was a bug, in earlier versions of
the stylesheets.

If you used an anchor in a title, that anchor was output in both the
table of contents and the actual chapter title. (It may even have been
output in title cross-references, but I don't think so.)

That's wrong. The "generated text" uses of the chapter title aren't
semantically the chapter title, or at least I don't think they are.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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