Re: [docbook-apps] Use id instead of name in onechunk?

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

Hi,

You can set the stylesheet parameter 'generate.id.attributes' to 1 to get that result.  That causes the stylesheet to generate id attributes instead of named anchors.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

From: Jeffrey Chimene

Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:50 PM

To: DocBook Apps

Subject: [docbook-apps] Use id instead of name in onechunk?

Hi:

I'd like to generate the following HTML. Note the presence of the ID attribute.

<div class="section" title="Getting Started">
            <div class="titlepage">
                <div>
                    <div>
                        <h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
                            <a id="gettingStartedTopic"></a>Getting Started
                        </h2>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

from the following XML

<section id="&idGettingStarted;">
        <title>Getting Started</title>

As you know, the ONECHUNK stylesheet generates the following HTML. Note the presence of the NAME attribute.

<div class="section" title="Getting Started">
            <div class="titlepage">
                <div>
                    <div>
                        <h2 class="title" style="clear: both">
                            <a name="gettingStartedTopic"></a>Getting Started
                        </h2>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>

The issue is that I want to present this document using _javascript_. There exists no "getElementByName" that is the equivalent of the DOM query method getElementById().

As a workaround, I run the generated HTML through a post-processor to replace all name attribute names with the id attribute name.

tia,
jec