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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Bibliography vs. olinks


Hi Alexey,
This is really a stylesheet glitch.  Only empty biblioentries should trigger a lookup in the bibliography database, but that test is insufficient, because it uses:
 
  <xsl:when test="string(.) = ''>
 
It really should first do an apply-templates into a variable to see if the entry has generated content, and then test to see if it is empty.
 
I think if  you add a blank space to the biblioentry, it should get past that test and process the content normally.
 
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:27 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Bibliography vs. olinks

Hi all,

 

I have a set of documents that cross-reference each other. They also mention each other in their bibliography sections.

 

So, the most natural way I thought of was:

 

<biblioentry>

<olink targetdoc="some-other-document"/>

</biblioentry>

 

Indeed, since all the necessary document info is already in the olink database - why not use it? Unfortunately, DTD stopped me from doing that. :)

 

So, I tried to wrap the <olink/> above in <citetitle/>. That passed the validation, but the docbook-xsl stylesheets interpreted this as a reference to an external bibliography file, and failing to load that external entity, emitted an error message:

 

warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/bibliography/bibliography.xml"

No bibliography entry: idp71680 found in http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/bibliography/bibliography.xml

 

So, I see two possible ways of dealing with this:

 

- to process the whole set of documents to create that "bibliography collection" (which, I guess, would work - but seems to be an overkill, given the availability of the required information in the olink database)

 

OR

 

- to customize the DTD to allow <olink/> as a direct child of <biblioentry/> and to customize the match="biblioentry" template to handle such olinks.

 

Am I missing some obvious way of dealing with this problem?

 

If I follow the latter approach, would it be a welcome addition to docbook-xsl stylesheets?

 

Regards,

Alexey.

 



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