RE: [docbook-apps] olink styling

["Andreas Lalloo" <andreas.lalloo@appmind.com>]

Excellent, thank you Bob! I've checked in rev 1.5 of common/olink.xsl to our local CVS repo until the next release is out. Works like a charm.

Regarding my other problem (that olinks to sections in other documents gets an "on page" suffix), i've understood as much as the modification affects my olink .db database - the xreftext entry in that file looks something like 

        <xreftext>Section "<fo:inline xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; font-style="italic">AppMind MX(tm) Management Information Repository</fo:inline>" on page <fo:page-number-citation xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; ref-id="seref_ug_mib_architecture"/></xreftext>

So I guess my approach of modifying the gentext for sections is not the way to go:
      <l:context name="xref"> 
	<!-- Express section references (gentext) as Section "blahblah" -->  
        <l:template name="section" text="Section&#160;&#x22;%t&#x22; on page %p"/>
      </l:context>    

One thought then is to use some kind of profiling which disables the gentext modification for the collect.xref.targets pass through the documents, phew. Any better ideas, anyone? Does more people have the same problem in this case, too?

  Best regards
   Andreas




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] 
> Sent: den 28 juni 2005 06:13
> To: Andreas Lalloo; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: tim@enigmatec.net
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] olink styling
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> You are not alone.  This issue came up in April with someone 
> trying to do
> the same thing.  The conclusion was that there should be a 
> special case for
> olinks pointing to the root element of a document, so that it 
> does *not*
> output the docname which repeats the olink title text.  I 
> recently checked
> into CVS a fix for this problem (in common/olink.xsl).  It 
> will be in the
> next release, which should be coming out soon.
> 
> In the meantime, you can use an undocumented feature.  There is a
> "nodocname" key word that you can use in the "select:" 
> xrefstyle.  It has
> the effect of turning off the docname that would normally 
> appear. So try
> this:
> 
> <olink xrefstyle="select: title nodocname" ...
> 
> This will be documented in the next edition of my book.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
>