Using ulink

[Mark Johnson]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 12:09 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> 
>>Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>, spake thus:
>>
>>
>>>But wait!  It gets easier.  DocBook XML specifies that when the XML tag
>>>closes itself (i.e. you don't provide any link text), the link itself is
>>>used as the text for any rendering process.  So what you should probably
>>>do instead, for better XML readability, is this:
>>>
>>><ulink url="http://some.link.to/somewhere/"/>
>>
>>Could you (or someone who has time) check this using a small example
>>with Apache FOP?  This is so clever that it may not be implemented in
>>some rederers.  IIRC, the tentative PDF rendering solution was to
>>involve FOP.
> 
> 
> Great idea -- I don't have FOP, but this is defined behavior in the
> DocBook standards (as opposed to any cleverness on my part -- I just
> read it in DocBook:TDG!), so I'll be very surprised if it doesn't
> deliver as promised. 

Keep in mind that this is the "recommended" behavior for the 
stylesheets. In reality, an implementer can do whatever she wants.

Fortunately, though, the (xsl) stylesheets are mostly developed by the 
same folks who work on the DocBook schema standards, so the docbook xsl 
stylesheets are likely compliant.

> I'll yield this task to someone who has it
> installed.  Is Mark Johnson out there?  I thought he used FOP, but I'm
> not sure.

I'd be happy to do a FOP build if someone can suggest an FDP doc for the 
test build...

Cheers,
Mark


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