RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: links between documents

[Lisa Carey <lisa.carey@havok.com>]

Fixed the problem!  Just in case it affects anyone else, the links that
didn't work were to chapters.  I had assigned IDs to the chapters, which (as
I saw when I examined the FO output) were in turn assigned to
fo:page-sequences.  FOP apparently only looks for IDs in fo:blocks when
creating links.

Anyway, I found a previously posted stylesheet for somebody who wanted page
numbers to appear in the TOC for chapters. This was caused by the same FOP
issue, and using it fixed all my broken links.  I can repost it if anyone is
similarly afflicted!

Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Carey [mailto:lisa.carey@havok.com]
Sent: 16 December 2002 17:21
To: Jeff Beal
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: links between documents


Hi Jeff,

I'm using Xerces (the FOP default) with FOP (I've tried with both FOP 0.20.3
and the release candidate FOP 0.20.5).  I'm not getting any errors relating
to the links, and it seems to be finding the linkend without a problem
(putting in appropriate generated link text or the specified xreflabel
text).  The link in the PDF is "clickable" (pointer changes and box appears
when you mouse over it, etc.), it just doesn't do anything!

For added mysteriousness, <link>s don't seem to work at all.

I am very bemused by this.

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Beal [mailto:jeff.beal@ansys.com]
Sent: 13 December 2002 18:04
To: 'Lisa Carey'; Jeff Beal; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: links between documents


Which XSLT processor are you using?  What errors, if any, do you see from
your XSLT processor and FOP?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Carey [mailto:lisa.carey@havok.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:53 AM
To: Jeff Beal; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: links between documents


Hi Jeff,

I'm just making a single big PDF - I thought xref would work fine, but it
isn't doing what it's supposed to.

Hmmmm.  Must poke at it some more.

Lisa Carey

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Beal [mailto:jeff.beal@ansys.com]
Sent: 13 December 2002 16:49
To: 'Lisa Carey'; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: links between documents


Are you creating a single PDF for the entire book, or building multiple
PDF's (one for each chapter)?  If you are building a single PDF in a single
pass with your XSLT processor and FOP, you shouldn't have any problems using
xref across XML files.

Jeff Beal

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Carey [mailto:lisa.carey@havok.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:30 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: links between documents


Hi folks,

I have quite a large book broken up into chapters, each of which is a
separate xml file.  The book file just uses entities to tie them all
together. Anyway, I want to add some links between chapters - "You can find
out more about x here" sort of thing - and am wondering how best to do it.
<xref> works fine within chapters, but not between them (I get a link, but
it doesn't go anywhere).  Do I need to use <olink>s?

I'm using FOP to generate my PDF output, if that makes any difference!

cheers,

Lisa