Using this recommendation eliminates the problems I had in the following thread:
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200609/msg00091.html
P.S. AFAIK db5 presently requires olink's targetdoc attribute, so one
must also include that.
On 9/11/06, Bob Stayton <> wrote:
> > Does olink have any functionality similar to that of endterm for xref?
>
> I'm not clear why you need endterm with olink. You can use an olink inside
> a citation to get the same functionality as an xref inside a citation, but
> with the advantage of no id/idref validation. In other words:
>
> <citation><olink targetptr="JSCET"/></citation> should produce [JSCET] as a
> hot link in the output, assuming that the biblioentry id is "JSCET" and
> there is no abbrev element (which would be used as the hot text instead of
> the id).
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Chiasson" <>
> To: "Ron Catterall" <>
> Cc: <>
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 5:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] can anyone recommend a more/better "marked up"
> form of...
>
>
> > Unfortunately, I compose my master document from several files that
> > are xi:included. Since the linkend attribute of biblioref and he same
> > attribute of xref uses the ref/idref scheme for validation, I am
> > unable to use biblioref and xref for citations unless I am inside my
> > Bibliography.xml document.
> >
> > Does olink have any functionality similar to that of endterm for xref?
> >
> > On 9/9/06, Ron Catterall <> wrote:
> >> the problem is that <citation> allows PCDATA. <biblioref> has to be a
> >> link.
> >>
> >> if JSCET is a link to a <bibliography> item try:
> >> <citation><biblioref linkend="JSCET"/> (p.805)</citation>
> >> or, even better, just:
> >> <biblioref linkend="JSCET"/> (p.805)
> >>
> >> <biblioref> is unambiguous to any machine processing. <citation> has
> >> multiple meanings - including PCDATA and many others. With
> >> <bilioref> you can construct your <bibliography> section of
> >> <bibliomixed> automatically if this links to a master file of biblio
> >> refs.
> >> You could of course use <xref> - but that will point to just about
> >> anything.
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >>
> >> see recent emails about this from Bob and Jirka, especially
> >>
> >> Hi Jirka,
> >> Yes, I think his point was that this is a bug in the stylesheet.
> >> Specifically this template in html/inline.xsl:
> >>
> >> <xsl:template match="citation">
> >> <!-- todo: integrate with bibliography collection -->
> >> <xsl:variable name="targets" select="(//biblioentry |
> >> //bibliomixed)[abbrev = string(current())]"/>
> >> <xsl:choose>
> >> <xsl:when test="$targets">
> >> <xsl:call-template name="xref">
> >> <xsl:with-param name="targets" select="$targets"/>
> >> </xsl:call-template>
> >> </xsl:when>
> >> <xsl:otherwise>
> >> <xsl:message>
> >> <xsl:text>Citation to nonexistent publication abbrev:
> >> </xsl:text>
> >> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >> </xsl:message>
> >> <xsl:text>[</xsl:text>
> >> <xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
> >> <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
> >> </xsl:otherwise>
> >> </xsl:choose>
> >> </xsl:template>
> >>
> >> The case when there is no matching target should not generate an
> >> error message because such a match is not required. The problem, of
> >> course, is trying to guess when a target was intended but none was
> >> found because of a typo. Since this is PCDATA, I don't think there
> >> is any way to tell. I usually recommend people use xref directly if
> >> they want a link that can be verified.
> >> Bob Stayton
> >>
> >> Yes, indeed. But in scientific publishing it is usually more
> >> convenient to use abbrev/citation then @id/xref. Anyway I removed
> >> warning and put FO code into shape with HTML code.
> >> Jirka
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ><citation>JSCET</citation>, p 805
> >> >
> >> >?
> >> >Thanks.
> >> >
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