Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Adding an attribute to links

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:56:06AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> 
> I'd like to add a title attribute to link/ulink/olink that is used as 
> title attribute in the generated <a href="..." title="...">. I've found 
> the templates that handle links in xref.xsl. Extending these templates 
> in a copy & change fashion looks easy, but I'd prefer a modular way of 
> hooking into them. From my experience I don't see such a way, but maybe 
> someone else knows better.

I don't see an easy way of hooking in.  Currently the
match="link" template will generate a title attribute
for the anchor tag if the target of the link has a
title element.  So you will have to override that
behavior.  Unfortunately, when it applies templates
in "object.title.markup.textonly" mode, it is using
the target of the link, not the link itself.

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