docbook-apps

  • 1.  Anchors Everywhere

    Posted 01-14-2013 21:28
    Is there an easy way to limit the number of anchor tags that are
    generated in the XHTML output? Or to just have the anchor tags generated
    as empty elements that do not wrap the text?

    It looks like nearly every p element has an a element that encloses the
    actual text. In Safari that is causing hover text to appear regardless
    of where the cursor stops. It is also hard to deal with CSS that
    includes styling for a:hover since pretty much everything is inside an a
    element.




  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] Anchors Everywhere

    Posted 01-14-2013 21:40
    Hi Eric,
    That does not sound right. It is not the default behavior of the XHTML
    stylesheet to wrap every para in an anchor tag. Most named anchors are
    empty elements. Although they may be rendered with opening and closing tags
    by some processors, they have no content, and certainly not a whole para.
    Can you provide more details of exactly which stylesheet and version you are
    using, and whether a customization layer is involved?

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net

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    From: "Eric Johnson" <ejohnson@redhat.com>
    Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:27 PM
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    Subject: [docbook-apps] Anchors Everywhere

    > Is there an easy way to limit the number of anchor tags that are generated
    > in the XHTML output? Or to just have the anchor tags generated as empty
    > elements that do not wrap the text?
    >
    > It looks like nearly every p element has an a element that encloses the
    > actual text. In Safari that is causing hover text to appear regardless of
    > where the cursor stops. It is also hard to deal with CSS that includes
    > styling for a:hover since pretty much everything is inside an a element.
    >
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  • 3.  Re: [docbook-apps] Anchors Everywhere

    Posted 01-16-2013 17:27
    Bob,
    It turns out that it was an issue with the Safari developer tools source
    viewer and a stale CSS stylesheet. The source viewer was showing the
    anchors enclosing most paragraphs, but when viewed in a plain text
    editor they were as expected .
    Cheers,
    Eric

    On 01/14/2013 04:39 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:
    > Hi Eric,
    > That does not sound right. It is not the default behavior of the
    > XHTML stylesheet to wrap every para in an anchor tag. Most named
    > anchors are empty elements. Although they may be rendered with opening
    > and closing tags by some processors, they have no content, and
    > certainly not a whole para. Can you provide more details of exactly
    > which stylesheet and version you are using, and whether a
    > customization layer is involved?
    >
    > Bob Stayton
    > Sagehill Enterprises
    > bobs@sagehill.net
    >
    > --------------------------------------------------
    > From: "Eric Johnson" <ejohnson@redhat.com>
    > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:27 PM
    > To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
    > Subject: [docbook-apps] Anchors Everywhere
    >
    >> Is there an easy way to limit the number of anchor tags that are
    >> generated in the XHTML output? Or to just have the anchor tags
    >> generated as empty elements that do not wrap the text?
    >>
    >> It looks like nearly every p element has an a element that encloses
    >> the actual text. In Safari that is causing hover text to appear
    >> regardless of where the cursor stops. It is also hard to deal with
    >> CSS that includes styling for a:hover since pretty much everything is
    >> inside an a element.
    >>
    >>
    >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
    >> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org
    >>
    >>
    >>