FYI to those interested: I did do a test of the non-traditional application
of olink to link to non-xml files and it worked with 1.68.1 stylesheets and
saxon (I used onechunk.xsl). It also worked with a bogus entity and a and/or
a empty targetdocent attribute:
test_olink.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [
]>
<chapter>
<docinfo>
<modespec id="e1800001">/Drivers/1800001G.exe</modespec>
</docinfo>
<title>Examples of oLink</title>
<para>
<olink linkmode="e1800001">Device Driver</olink>
</para>
</chapter>
generated html:
<p><a href="/Drivers/1800001G.exe" class="olink">Device Driver</a></p>
-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:31 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] olink for generating href links
Well, it just so happens that we'll be using Bob's suggestion (thank you
again): the content writer is using Framemaker, and Framemaker doesn't like
the modespec element...
We'll be using the "type" attribute instead of "role". We're already usign
the role attribute for creating targets in the href. Is it a bad idea to use
the "type"?
LN
-----Original Message-----
From: Webmaster
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:30 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] olink for generating href links
Thank you, for the clever suggestion, Bob. Actually one of the list members
responded to me directly and had a clever suggestion that worked in her
case, I'm going to give it a try and maybe it will work for others, so I'm
sharing it:
1 st Tag with the DTD declaration:
--------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "file:///C:/docbook44/docbookx.dtd"
[
<!ENTITY Supplementary_Information.xml SYSTEM
"Supplementary_Information.xml" NDATA SGML>
]>
2 nd Tag: (i gave it just before i closed the <articleinfo> </articleinfo>
tag)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------
<modespec id="SUPP_INFO">Supplementary_Information.html</modespec>
3 rd Tag: where i wanted to generate the olink:
----------------------------------------------------------------
<para>For further information, refer to
<olink linkmode="SUPP_INFO"
targetdocent="Supplementary_Information.xml">Supplementary
Information</olink>.</para>
That generated the following hyperlink:
<a href="Supplementary_Information.html" class="olink">Supplementary
Information</a>
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:28 AM
To: Webmaster;
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] olink for generating href links
Hi,
Actually, your application is not what olinks are for. Olinks are for
linking from one DocBook document to an id in another DocBook document. You
are linking to a zip file, not a DocBook document.
The element used for linking to non-DocBook documents is ulink. But the
current ulink element's linking mechanism is a url, not an entity reference.
You would have to customize the template that processes ulink to treat the
url attribute as if it were an entityref. Instead of:
<xsl:value-of select="@url"/>
you would instead use:
<xsl:value-of select="unparsed-entity-uri(@url)"/>
But if the url for one ulink contains an actual url instead of an entity
name, then this simple change will fail. You would need to make it
conditional, perhaps by setting a role attribute.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Webmaster" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:42 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] olink for generating href links
> Hello.
>
> I'm using 1.68.1 stylesheets, and saxon.
>
> I would like to generate HTML href links using the olink element. My paths
> for the target are specified as external entity:
>
> Example (one out of 400):
> <!ENTITY e1800001 SYSTEM "/path/to/file.zip" NDATA SGML>
>
> and I'm calling out the olink:
> <olink targetdocent="e1800001">Device Driver</olink>
>
> and it's generating this:
> <a href="/cgi-bin/olink?sysid=" class="olink">Device Driver</a>
>
> I want this:
> <a href="/path/to/file.zip" class="olink">Device Driver</a>
>
> I don't know if this is what olinks are for, but I didn't want to have to
go
> thru all my xml to update links when they change. Instead, I pull a report
> from our database, and it gives me the about 400+ entities that then I
paste
> into my entitiy section. (the ids won't change). By doing this, it changes
a
> 1 day job into a 5 minute task.
>
> How can I get this to work?
>
> Thanks!
> LN
>
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