Re: [docbook] \r\n becomes 
 when generating XHTML (for ePub)

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

It isn't the stylesheet, it is the processor.  The serializer in the 
processor that generates the output bases its behavior on the "method" 
attribute in xsl:output.   It is the <xsl:output method="html"/> that makes 
the difference for the html stylesheet.  In the xhtml stylesheet, there is 
<xsl:output method="xml"/> instead.   In the case of "html", the output is 
actually SGML, which is what the original HTML was based on.

As I mentioned, it isn't that the html stylesheet removes the \r characters, 
it just presents them in the output differently.  The html stylesheet 
outputs "^M" (Ctrl-M) while the xhtml stylesheet outputs "&#13;", and those 
are treated differently by the epub browser, it seems.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boris Schäling" <boris@highscore.de>
To: "'Bob Stayton'" <bobs@sagehill.net>; <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 6:04 AM
Subject: RE: [docbook] \r\n becomes &#13; when generating XHTML (for ePub)




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 2:12 AM
> To: Boris Schäling; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] \r\n becomes when generating XHTML (for ePub)

Hi Bob,

> [...]
> But that output is not suitable for epub, is it?  If you are generating
> content for epub, why are you using the plain html stylesheet?  What
> happens
> when you process your files with either the epub/docbook.xsl or
> xhtml/docbook.xsl stylesheets?  When I use either of those stylesheets,
> I
> see the &#13; characters on the text includes.

oh, you are right! I thought I had checked that. With these stylesheets I
see those &#13; characters, too. Then it's not the tool but the stylesheet?
The html stylesheet seems to remove those &#13; characters while the xhtml
stylesheet doesn't? It sounds strange though that the output is different -
is there a reason? And if the html stylesheet removes &#13; it should be
possible to customize the xhtml stylesheet to do the same?

Boris

> [...]