Re: [docbook-apps] <link xlink:href="..."> in XHTML output (DocBook XSL 1.71.1)

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi,
I don't think you understood my earlier response.  8^)
The existing 1.71.1 stylesheets work with xlink:href in link, and don't 
care what the prefix is, as long as the xlink namespace uri is used 
correctly.  But the key to getting that part of the stylesheet functioning 
is to include the docbook namespace xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; 
on the document's root element.  That kicks in the DB5 fixup code to handle 
xlink:href on the link element.

For example, I just processed this DB5 document using two different xlink 
prefixes:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<article xmlns=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; 
xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; 
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";  version="5">
<title>Testing links with 1.71.1</title>
<para>using xl: <link xl:href="http://www.saxonica.com/";
      xl:type="simple" 
xl:actuate="onRequest">http://www.saxonica.com</link>
</para>
<para>using xlink: <link xlink:href="http://www.saxonica.com/";
      xlink:type="simple" 
xlink:actuate="onRequest">http://www.saxonica.com</link>
</para>
</article>

Note the default docbook namespace declaration in the article start tag.  I 
used Saxon 6 with docbook-xsl-1.71.1/xhtml/docbook.xsl and got this output:

 <p>using xl: <a href="http://www.saxonica.com/"; 
target="_top">http://www.saxonica.com</a>
 </p>

<p>using xlink: <a href="http://www.saxonica.com/"; 
target="_top">http://www.saxonica.com</a>
</p>

Notice that both prefixes work.

I also tried it with the experimental namespace-aware stylesheets, and the 
html stylesheet works but not the xhtml (I didn't do much with the xhtml 
side).

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "Christian Roth" <roth@infinity-loop.de>; "DocBook Apps Mailing List" 
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] <link xlink:href="..."> in XHTML output 
(DocBook XSL 1.71.1)


> Will the 1.xx.x stylesheets allow use of xlink: as the prefix? What
> about the experimental namespace aware 1.xx.x version?
>
> On 10/20/06, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>> More importantly, did you put the DocBook namespace declaration on the 
>> root
>> element of your document?  That is what makes it a DocBook 5 document, 
>> and
>> that is what triggers the stylesheets to handle such links.
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> DocBook Consulting
>> bobs@sagehill.net
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christian Roth" <roth@infinity-loop.de>
>> Cc: "DocBook Apps Mailing List" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] <link xlink:href="..."> in XHTML output
>> (DocBook XSL 1.71.1)
>>
>>
>> > >It is likely that you will need to use xl as the prefix instead of
>> > >xlink.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, this didn't work, with the namespace declared
>> > xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
>> >
>> > and
>> >
>> > <link xl:href="http://www.saxonica.com/";
>> >      xl:type="simple"
>> >      xl:actuate="onRequest">http://www.saxonica.com</link>
>> >
>> > I get the same result. Maybe this just isn't implemented yet since it 
>> > is
>> > new for DB5. And if it is implemented, it probably should not compare 
>> > on
>> > the namespace prefix, but on the namespace name. If I get the time, 
>> > I'll
>> > try to look into the XSLTs to see what is actually happening.
>> >
>> > Thanks anyway,
>> > Christian
>> >
>> >
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