RE: [docbook] HTML BR tags

[Jeff Beal <jeff.beal@ansys.com>]

Could you perhaps be more specific as to why you want a line break?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Viner [mailto:dviner@yahoo-inc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:50 PM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook] HTML BR tags
> 
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 	Thanks for your reply.  I am actually using XSL to 
> transform my xml into
> html already.  I completely understand and like the 
> seperation of layout
> from content that DocBook enables.  However, in my case (and 
> I suspect in
> many similar cases where generation of HTML is desired), it is very
> challenging to have the XML contain content markup 
> exclusively.  Although it
> is highly desirable to seperate the two, there are some cases 
> where such
> seperation is extremely difficult to maintain.
> 	Therefore, while I completely agree that layout 
> decisions should be
> seperated from content as much as possible, I believe that 
> there might be a
> reasonable compromise that allows most users to interject 
> desired layout
> elements without overly burdening or corrupting the content markup.  I
> realize that what I am suggesting isn't so much a DocBook 
> standard as it is
> (perhaps) a "recommendation" for use when one needs more 
> direct correlation
> between the DocBook XML and the resultant HTML.  This is why 
> I suggested the
> use of the literallayout element with a role attribute.  Does 
> that make
> sense or am I way off base here?
> 	Perhaps this post would have been more appropriate for 
> docbook-apps@
> instead of docbook@.  Please let me know if I have 
> misdirected my comments.
> I certainly don't want to create more spam-ish emails for folks.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> dave
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Eisenacher [mailto:eisenacher@fillmore-labs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:24 AM
> To: Dave Viner
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] HTML BR tags
> 
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Docbook is about marking up content, not about layout. The layout is
> done in the XSL transformation step. If you're not satisfied with the
> default layout, you'll have to do your changes/extensions via an XSL
> customization layer. Check those references for more info on XSL
> customizations:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/index.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/
> 
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Dave Viner schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > 	I am generating a DocBook XML file which I need to 
> convert to HTML.  In
> the
> > output HTML, I need to have a <br> tag appear.  From reading
> > http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch02.html#d0e5767 and 
> the archives,
> there
> > are several possible ways to insert a linebreak into the 
> output HTML.  It
> > seems to me that this is a very common problem for those 
> need to generate
> > HTML from DocBook, and so would benefit from some sort of 
> recommended or
> > standard solution.  Is such a concept upcoming in future 
> revisions of
> > DocBook?
> > 	If not, perhaps one possible solution would be to 
> coerce a common
> attribute
> > of literallayout for this purpose.  For example, <literallayout
> > role="linebreak" /> might be used as a common expression 
> for the HTML br
> > tag.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave Viner
> >
> 
> 
> 
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