Re: [docbook-apps] html pass thru

Bob,

    Yes -- I am using version 3 of 
the book.  Your suggestion worked -- thanks for the help

Cheers

Eric

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  Bob Stayton 
  

  
To: Eric Hagemann ;  
  

  
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:22 
PM

  
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] html pass 
  thru

  

  
Hi Eric,

  
You must be using an edition of my book earlier 
  than the current 4th edition, because now that is chapter 12.

  
 

  
Anyway, the & in the URL must be escaped as 
  & in each instance.  These will be written to the HTML output as 
  & and that is ok, because browsers accept & and interpret them 
  as & when reading an HTML file (but not when reading a URL on the browser 
  URL input line).

  
 

  
I presume you are  closing the <a> tag 
  after some link text, as that is required for well-formedness.

  
 

  
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


  
 

  
 

  
    
----- Original Message ----- 

    
From: 
    Eric Hagemann 

    
To: Bob Stayton ;  
    

    
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:14 
    AM

    
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] html pass 
    thru

    

    
Bob,

    
    I am looking at chap 11 -- 
    HTML customizations section on Inserting HTML code in the page content -- If 
    it helps I am using the 3rd edition of your book.  By the way, thanks 
    for putting the effort into the book, very very useful.

    
 

    
    Anyway here is the the 
    offending line of html code.  Its a link to a product on amazon.com and 
    was supplied by amazon.  The transformation engine does not like the 
    &tag saying it needs to end with a semicolon.

    
 

    
    I was hoping to just escape 
    the html and let it pass thru but I am also interested in how to fix the 
    html -- if that is easier

    
 

    
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009R6WY?ie=UTF8&tag=sp&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00009R6WY">

    
 

    
thanks

    
Eric

    
      
----- Original Message ----- 

      
From: 
      Bob Stayton 
      

      
To: Eric Hagemann ;  
      

      
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:34 
      AM

      
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] html pass 
      thru

      

      
Hi Eric,

      
I presume you mean Chapter 12, HTML 
      Customizations.  I think the section you are referring to needs some 
      clarification.

      
 

      
I'm not sure, but I don't think POST has 
      anything to do with the problem.  Most likely the input is not 
      well-formed XML.

      
 

      
In order for an XSLT processor to xsl:copy 
      any content, that content must be well-formed XML, and typical HTML 
      is not well-formed XML. If the content has HTML markup, then simply 
      wrapping the content in an element does not make it well-formed.  
      That only applies if the content is text such as Javascript.  The 
      third paragraph in this section mentions that any HTML markup must be 
      well-formed markup:

      
 

      
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/InsertExtHtml.html

      
 

      
The xsl:output can still be method="html", 
      and the processor will convert your well-formed XML back into plain 
      HTML.  

      
 

      
If that still doesn't work, then post an 
      example.

      
 

      
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


      
 

      
 

      
        
----- Original Message ----- 

        
From: 
        Eric Hagemann 

        
To:  
        

        
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:55 
        PM

        
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] html 
        pass thru

        

        
I have been able to follow the examples in 
        the DocBook XSL guide and have inserted the code as per Chapter 11 but I 
        am still having issues since the html is a href with POST parameters 
        that is causing the transformation engine to choke.  I have treated 
        the HTML as malformed and done as suggested -- wrapped the html in 
        proper xml tags <badcode> html </badcode> but still no 
        luck

        
 

        
 

        
          
----- Original Message ----- 

          
From: 
          Eric Hagemann 

          
To:  
          

          
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 
          5:41 PM

          
Subject: [docbook-apps] html pass 
          thru

          

          
Hello,

          
    Seems like a simple 
          thing that I should be able to find in help -- but to no 
          avail.

          
 

          
   I am writing contect 
          destined for web output and I want to place some html within the 
          docbook xml and have it pass thru unaltered.  I want the html to 
          be "live" and thus CDATA will not work

          
 

          
    Is there a processing 
          instruction for such a purpose ?

          
 

          
Cheers

          
Eric