docbook-apps

  • 1.  cross-book olinks in epub

    Posted 10-03-2011 18:54
    hi,
    I'm using xsltproc with the 1.76.1 epub/docbook.xsl stylesheets. When
    creating a standalone epub doc, I get real hyperlinks for
    cross-document links.

    For example, see this page from the DocBook XSL Guide:
    http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Olinking.html

    Suppose you create an epub of the userguide; I believe it should not
    contain active hyperlinks to the admin guide.
    I think that such cross-document references should resolve as text-only.
    That is, a hyperlink that goes to an external docset should not be
    created for epub.

    That is just my opinion, I haven't read the official spec. But it
    seems unusable for an epub to retain relative links to an external
    document.
    Does that make sense? Am I misunderstanding?

    thanks,
    --Tim Arnold