Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: gentext customization: remove "Abstract" and"Table of Contents" in HTML

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:18:45PM -0500, ed nixon wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> Thanks for your mail. Unfortunately, this customization seems to open up 
> a can of worms. Processing my sdocbook file via the xhtml stylesheets 
> using Instant Saxon, there are the comparative results: no customization 
> versus customized
> 
> Before:
>   <div class="abstract">
>     <p class="title"><b>Abstract</b></p>
>     <p>Some document projects successfully completed ...</p>
>     <p>Now, the challenge is to integrate...</p>
>   </div>
> 
> After:
> <div xmlns="" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; class="abstract">
> <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>Some document projects 
> successfully completed...</p>
> <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>Now, the challenge is to 
> integrate...</p>
> </div>

This is very strange.  How would your HTML output include a
reference to the fo namespace?  Does your HTML customization
include any references to that namespace?

But other than the namespace
attributes, the output is correct, right?
There are no empty <p><b> for the missing
abstract title.
 
> Here is the result when I run the file against the same customized file 
> using the html rather than the xhtml stylesheets:
> <div xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; class="abstract">
>   <p>Some document projects successfully completed...</p>
>   <p>Now, the challenge is to integrate</p>
> </div>
> 
> I'm afraid I can't even begin to understand what's going on here. If you 
> think it may be my configuration, I will try anything you suggest.

Look for xslns:fo in your customization.
Are you using a catalog file?  Perhaps it is pulling in
the wrong stuff?
 
> In general, I wonder if a more reasonable approach to this wouldn't be 
> for the style sheets to leave out the <p class="title"><br></p> when the 
> gentext title string isare set to null?
> Is the same thing done with other gentext items?
> What are the implications for making this a generalized feature, I wonder?

I'll leave that one for Norm.

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