Re: [docbook] Newbie: DocBook and images

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:57:42PM +1100, craig wrote:
> I am generating html using Docbook and Cocoon, standard installation 
> on Mac OS X. 
> 
> xml fragment: 
> <figure><title>The SapphireOne Structure is displayed below.</title> 
> <graphic fileref="/Tomcat/webapps/cocoon/docbook/images/SOStructure" 
> format="JPEG"/> 
> </figure> 
> 
> This fragment generates the following html fragment: 
> <div> 
> <img src="/Tomcat/webapps/cocoon/docbook/images/SOStructure" alt="The 
> SapphireOne Structure is displayed below."></div> 
> </div> 
> 
> This does not display the Image in IE 5.2.1 (Mac), but when I save the 
> html to disc, and open the file fro the disc, it does display the 
> image. 
> Now I can live with this (for about a week), but I need a fix. 

Your HTTP server doesn't have permission to serve that
pathname.  In HTML output, the fileref attribute is copied
straight through to the img href attribute.
The image file itself is not accessed during processing.
So the pathname used in fileref should one that is
accessible from your HTTP server.  If it is an absolute
path, it must be relative to your HTTP server's document
root. If it is a relative path, it must be relative to
the generated HTML files.

For example, you could use:

<graphic fileref="images/SOStructure" 

and then copy the images/* directory to the location
of your HTML output files.

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