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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with links


It turns out this is a known bug in xsltproc.  The explanation is that the 
entity content does not inherit the namespaces from the ancestor element as 
it should. The stylesheet handles docbook 5 documents by first stripping 
out the namespaces and converting any elements to what are essentially 
docbook4 elements.  This is done so that a new version of the stylesheets 
doesn't have to be created to handle matches on elements with the docbook 
namespace.

In this case, a link with xlink:href is converted to a ulink with url 
attribute.  But if it doesn't have a namespace on it, such conversion does 
not take place, leaving a link with xlink:href which the stylesheet does 
not handle properly.  In the long run there will probably be a separate 
stylesheet that handles all the docbook 5 stuff natively in its namespace, 
but that isn't available yet.

The workaround is to make sure your entities have all the namespace markup 
that they need.   Here is the info from Daniel Veillard:

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Yes known bug. the parsing of the entities doesn't see the namespace
declarations from the reference point, the parsing being done out of 
context.
The origin lays in libxml2 being designed for authoring, I wanted multiple
entities references to share the same subtree at the time, this was mostly
okay before namespaces. I should revisit the issue since nobody really
author XML as XML and  entities are just a design mistake if you think of 
them
as shared docuemnt part as we used to. Oh well, sorry, just repeat your
namespaces declarations, it will also ease the transition to to XInclude 
for
those use cases...

Daniel


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Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <POD69@gmx.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:36 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Problem with links


> Hello
>
> I have a big problem I have these two files below:
> - If i let it run and generate output the link on the book tag works but 
> not the link in file two it points to the document? Does anyone know how 
> to solve that problem?:
>
> thanks peter
>
> file one:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE book [
>
>   <!ENTITY links SYSTEM "Links.xml">
> ]>
>
>
> <book  xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; 
> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";   version="5.0" xml:lang="en" 
>  >
>   <info>
>   <title></title>
>
>   </info>
>
>    <chapter>
>    <title> </title>
>    <para>
>    <link  xlink:href="http://www.msn.com";> http://www.msn.com</link>
>    </para>
>    <para>
>       &links;
>    </para>
>
>
>    </chapter>
> </book>
>
> file two:
>
>
> <para>
> <table xml:id="links" frame='all'>
> <title>Link List</title>
>
> <tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
> <colspec colname='Description'/>
> <colspec colname='Link'/>
>
> <tbody>
> <row>
> <entry>msn</entry>
> <entry>
> <link
>        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
>        xlink:href="http://www.msn.com"; >
> http://www.msn.com
>        </link>
> </entry>
> </row>
> </tbody>
> </tgroup>
> </table>
>
> </para>
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