Ron Catterall wrote:
> #PCDATA is allowed in <citation> (Docbook 4 manual), but transformation
> to xhtml produces warning messages which suggest that the content of
> <citation> is assumed to be a <biblioref>. The XHTML output inserts [
> and ] around the #PCDATA within <citation></citation> as it would do if
> this were a <biblioref>. Same for <citation> a child of <para> or
> <attribution>.
>
> The Warning messages produced are:
> Citation to nonexistent publication abbrev: 35-36
> Citation to nonexistent publication abbrev: 13-16
I think that this behavior is completely aligned with TDG. See:
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/citation.html
"The content of a Citation is assumed to be a reference string, perhaps
identical to an abbreviation in an entry in a Bibliography."
Why do you think that this is a bug?
> FO transformation to PDF with XEP 4.6 interprets the <citation>
> correctly - no warning or error messages, and no [ and ] wrapped around
> the citation.
Then this is bug in FO stylesheets that should be fixed.
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