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>
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> From: "Eric Johnson" <
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> 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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