Re: refentry, man(nroff), & comments in lists

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * Bob Stayton <obof@fpb.pbz> [2003-11-07 10:08:26 -0800]:
>
>> is it possible to fix this bug?
>
> It is likely that the template for variablelist is explicitly
> selecting its children to process rather than just doing a general
> apply-templates. That selection probably only includes elements, not
> other node types like comment().  You need to find where it is
> selecting its content and make sure comment() is included.  It looks
> like it might be in the template for variablelists in html/lists.xsl.

you mean something like this?

cd d:/gnu/cygwin/usr/share/docbook-xsl/fo/
diff -u -b -w -i -B "d:/gnu/cygwin/usr/share/docbook-xsl/fo/lists.xsl.old" "d:/gnu/cygwin/usr/share/docbook-xsl/fo/lists.xsl"
--- d:/gnu/cygwin/usr/share/docbook-xsl/fo/lists.xsl.old	2003-10-03 03:22:22.001000000 -0400
+++ d:/gnu/cygwin/usr/share/docbook-xsl/fo/lists.xsl	2003-11-07 21:55:53.485436800 -0500
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
                     "{$termlength}+{$label-separation}"
                  provisional-label-separation="{$label-separation}"
                  xsl:use-attribute-sets="list.block.spacing">
-    <xsl:apply-templates select="varlistentry" mode="vl.as.list"/>
+    <xsl:apply-templates mode="vl.as.list"/>
   </fo:list-block>
 </xsl:template>


Diff finished at Fri Nov 07 21:55:54


why do the stylesheets do that at all - I mean, process only the list
elements, not comments &c?!

One would have to go through all the stylesheets for all the backends...

Who is the templates maintainer?


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