Re: [docbook-apps] MHRA and Docbook XSL

[DavePawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Chris Yocum wrote:
> Hi All,
>      I just wanted to let everyone know that I have written up a first
> crack at MHRA styling in footnotes for Docbook. 

What's MHRA please, for others as ignorant as myself?


>      There are a few limitations at the moment.  Everything is linked
> to the book tag at the top of the document and thus can only support
> books at the moment.  This is because I couldn't use the ancestor axis
> to match the linkend attribute of the biblioref tag to something in
> the bibliography as the bibliography is not an ancestor (it is an
> ancestral sibling).  I am casting about for ways to allow articles to
> join the fun. 

Are you using <link linkend=''> ?
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/link.html

In which case you should be able to use the id function?
(  id(@linkend) to get to the target)





>      Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback, I would be very
> grateful to hear them.  Also, I can provide an example bibliography on
> request.  Thank you very much for your time.


Since I'm in no position to say it's 'correct' or not,
I'll leave that to others!



regards

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Dave Pawson
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