Re: [docbook-apps] How to specify rel="canonical in Docbook and conversi

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How to specify rel="canonical in Docbook and conversion for HTML

Best regards, Lars

2011/9/23 Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>

Hi Lars,

The short answer is no, the stylesheets don't do anything with link rel="canonical". The reference is to the Google webmaster site. Is this feature specific to Google?

DocBook XSL does support customization of the <head> element by customizing the utility template named 'user.head.content', as described here:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlHead.html

That could be used to generate another <link> element. I'm not sure where you would stash that canonical URL in your document, though.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: Lars Vogel

To: DocBook Apps

Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:14 AM

Subject: [docbook-apps] How to specify rel="canonical in Docbook and conversion for HTML

Hi,

a while ago the big search engines introduce the rel="canonical attribute in the header to identify the "main" content webpage, especially useful if you have a chunks version and a single page version of your HTML content.

This is something which should go into the <head> section and may be different per DocBook document. It would look like the following:

link rel="canonical" href="" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

Details can be found here:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Is this available in Docbook and considered by the XLST Stylesheets?

Best regards, Lars

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