Re: ANNOUNCE: Modular DocBook Stylesheets version 1.08beta7

Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Modular DocBook Stylesheets version 1.08beta7
From: Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:54:21 -0400
/ Lionel Mallet <l.mallet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| On Tue, 12 May 1998 17:08:36 EDT, Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
| > The problem is in your test case.  A title page is only built
| > for a Reference if it has a title or a subtitle, and your
| > reference doesn't have a title.
| > 
| > For the purposes of making a title page, only the content of
| > the *info element is examined, so a <title> outside of the
| > <docinfo> doesn't count.
| 
| Hmm. That's unfortunate since a title outside the <docinfo> is
| required by the DocBook DTD, whereas it is not inside the
| <docinfo>.
| 
| So you end up duplicating the title in both places.

Fixed.

| > It's a little bit unfortunate that DocBook allows <title> in
| > both places.  But if it didn't, then you'd need a <docinfo>
| > wrapper around every title, which would be very tedious.
| >
| > I'll try to make the stylesheets a little smarter...
| 
| And you can also fix the <link> resolution. If you check the generated HTML 
| for my document, you'll notice that every link it contains is broken. They 
| refer to x????.html although no chunks are generated.

Fixed.

--norm


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