Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating A TOC automatically

[Vincent Hikida <vhikida@inreach.com>]

I get an index.html either way. There is no difference between having an
empty toc and not having one.

Vincent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@caldera.com>
To: <vhikida@inreach.com>; <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating A TOC automatically


> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:40:33PM -0700, vhikida@inreach.com wrote:
> > I'm afraid I'm still a novice at Docbook and related technologies. I am
> > under the impression that using <toc> </toc> will automatically cause a
toc
> > to be created.
> >
> > I tried the following docbook xml file.
> >
> > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css"
> > href="http://docs.boostmyscore.com/dtd/docbook.css";?>
> > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
> > "http://docs.boostmyscore.com/dtd/docbook/docbookx.dtd"; >
> > <book>
> > <bookinfo>
> >      <title>Docbook Test</title>
> >      <date>October 1, 2002</date>
> > </bookinfo>
> > <toc></toc>
> > <chapter id="chapter1">
> > <title>Chapter 1</title>
> > <para>
> > This is Chapter 1 of Docbook test.
> > </para>
> > </chapter>
> > <chapter id="chapter2">
> > <title>Chapter 2</title>
> > <para>
> > This is Chapter 2 of Docbook test.
> > </para>
> > </chapter>
> > </book>
> >
> > I am using Xalan and chunk.xsl. No TOC is created in the html files that
> > are produced. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Interesting.  The empty <toc> element should not
> make any difference unless you have some parameters
> set to process it.  What happens when you remove
> the empty <toc>?  Do you get an index.html file
> either way?
>
> I'm able to process your file with both Saxon and xsltproc
> and the 1.55.0 chunk stylesheet, and I get a TOC in
> index.html.  I don't currently have Xalan set up to test it.
>
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