Re: [docbook] Footnote element, label attributes, DocBook 5

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Nic Gibson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been working with some data converters to get a large chunk of the
> Penguin backlist converted into XML. We've had some feedback from the
> converters about footnotes. The label attribute for footnotes is typed as
> NMTOKEN in the schema. As far as I can see, any other element which has a
> label attribute has the type set as 'text'.
> 
> Have our converters hit a bug here or is there a subtle reason I haven't
> worked out?
> 
> The problem for the converters is that some of our older texts don't use
> alphanumerics as footnote labels, they use things like asterisks and
> crosses. Any ideas or suggestions would be highly appreciated.


Quite possibly because it's an id/idref pair which produce the link?
That requires the nmtoken IIRC.

Possibly pre-process your input documents to exchange (unicode oddities) 
for fn1, fn2 in pairs?

Pre-process with xslt and within any given scope matching your footnotes 
(say chapters) do the same swap in an identity transform, leaving 
everything else alone?


HTH





regards

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