Re: [docbook-apps] Automatic glossaries and seealso

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

Hi David,

This is a limitation of the current implementation of the automatic glossary.  See this doc for more details:

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossDatabase.html#LinksGlossCollection

 

It suggests also reading this parameter reference page:

 

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/glossary.collection.html

 

Fixing this would likely require a redesign of the automatic glossary processing.  You can go ahead and file a bug report on the SourceForge tracker to get it in the queue.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: David Goss

To: DocBook Apps

Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:43 AM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Automatic glossaries and seealso

I?m using <glossary role=?auto? /> to generate a glossary for multiple documents from the same source.

 

This works great, unless I use a glossterm in the document that contains a <glossseealso> element. When this happens, I get the ?See also? reference in the generated glossary, but if the glossterm was not used in the document, the reference term isn?t in the glossary.

 

Example:

My document contains:

                <glossterm>heating</glossterm>

My glossary has <glossseealso>cooling</glossseealso>

So when I run the stylesheets, I get ?See also, cooling? under the entry for heating, even though ?cooling? isn?t in the generated glossary.

 

I would either like to automatically add the term to the generated glossary or remove the seealso reference for terms that are not used.

 

(Could this also be a bug? It doesn?t seem like expected behavior.)

 

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