Thanks for that. I don't really want to modify the js, as that is going to
create a divergence between the released version and my local version. Are
there any plans to fix this?
Nat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe <
kasunbg@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe this is a bug. I was able to re-produce the error with the
> docbook sample you have provided. We have introduced following code segment
> [1] to main.js in order to fix an issue with the page-scroll-down when
> clicking on url anchors (the urls with #).
>
> The culprit is the jquery function, $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']').
> In your case, this.hash.slice(1) return section4.id, but jquery fails to
> process it.
>
> One option you can do is to get rid of this code, and implement the
> alternative as suggested in [2].
>
> [1]
> // When you click on a link to an anchor, scroll down
> // 105 px to cope with the fact that the banner
> // hides the top 95px or so of the page.
> // This code deals with the problem when
> // you click on a link within a page.
> $('a[href*=#]').click(function() {
> if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') ==
> this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'')
> && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
> var $target = $(this.hash);
> $target = $target.length && $target
> || $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
> if (!(this.hash == "#searchDiv" || this.hash == "#treeDiv"
> || this.hash == "") && $target.length) {
> var targetOffset = $target.offset().top - 120;
> $('html,body')
> .animate({scrollTop: targetOffset}, 200);
> return false;
> }
> }
> });
>
>
> [2]
http://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/bugs/1219/>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:00 AM, natk <
nkershaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have encountered the following javascript error in webhelp:
>>
>> Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [name=section4.id]
>>
>> This only happens when I have a section which is four levels deep or more
>> and I have given the section a manually generated id (i.e. it is a section
>> to which I want to refer via an xref) which contains a dot(.) character.
>>
>> The error occurs when I click on the section in question in the
>> navigation sidebar.
>>
>> My browser reports that the problem is in:
>>
>> jquery-1.7.2.min.js:3
>>
>> This is a docbook sample which demonstrates the problem:
>>
>>
>> <book id="DocId" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
>>
>>
>> <chapter>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <para>And finally some text.</para>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <para>And some more text.</para>
>>
>>
>>
>> >> </chapter>
>> </book>
>>
>> It doesn't seem to like manually generated 'id's with the dot character
>> in them.
>>
>> Has anyone else found this? Is this a limitation of this format? Are
>> there any other characters which are not permitted? Is it confusing the
>> string literal for a regexp?
>>
>> Nat
>>
>
>
>
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