Re: DOCBOOK: Question about glossaries

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:37:27PM +0200, Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> Why the content of the <acronym> elements are not rendered
> when generating a glossary document?
> 
> For instance, I wrote something like this:
> 
> <glossdiv id="A">
>   <title>A</title>
> 
>   <glossentry id="myterm">
>     <glossterm>My Term</glossterm>
>     <acronym>My Acronym</acronym> <!-- This is not rendered -->
>     <glosdef>bla bla ...</glosdef>
>   </glossentry>
> </glossdiv>
 
The XSL stylesheets have null templates for these elements:

<xsl:template match="glossentry/acronym">
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="glossentry/abbrev">
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="glossentry/revhistory">
</xsl:template>

That explains why you don't get any output for acronym, but
it doesn't explain why the templates are null.  Perhaps
these elements are thought of as metadata rather than
printable content.  

In any case, it you have a customization layer, you can
output your acronym by adding:

<xsl:template match="glossentry/acronym">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

You'll probably want to add some formatting, though.
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