Re: [docbook-apps] <link xlink:href="..."> in XHTML output (DocBook XSL 1.71.1)

Link didn't work for me, either.  I had to use ulink e.g.
<ulink url="http://www.yahoo.com">yahoo</ulink>

--Craeg

> Hi Christian,
> More importantly, did you put the DocBook namespace declaration on the
> root
> element of your document?  That is what makes it a DocBook 5 document, and
> that is what triggers the stylesheets to handle such links.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> 
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Roth" <>
> Cc: "DocBook Apps Mailing List" <>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 3:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] <link xlink:href="..."> in XHTML output
> (DocBook XSL 1.71.1)
>
>
>> >It is likely that you will need to use xl as the prefix instead of
>> >xlink.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this didn't work, with the namespace declared
>> xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>>
>> and
>>
>> <link xl:href="http://www.saxonica.com/"
>>      xl:type="simple"
>>      xl:actuate="onRequest">http://www.saxonica.com</link>
>>
>> I get the same result. Maybe this just isn't implemented yet since it is
>> new for DB5. And if it is implemented, it probably should not compare on
>> the namespace prefix, but on the namespace name. If I get the time, I'll
>> try to look into the XSLTs to see what is actually happening.
>>
>> Thanks anyway,
>> Christian