Hi Bob,
Thanks for your reply.
As far as I know all major search engines (Yahoo, Google, Microsoft) support this flag.
I don't think customization would work (easily) as this rel="canonical" is specific to every document (==Docbook file). If I understand it right this would require a customization per document which would not be realistic for me to maintain.
Best regards, Lars
2011/9/23 Bob Stayton <>
Hi Lars,
The short answer is no, the stylesheets don't do
anything with link rel="canonical". The reference is to the Google
webmaster site. Is this feature specific to Google?
DocBook XSL does support customization of the
<head> element by customizing the utility template named
'user.head.content', as described here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlHead.html
That could be used to generate another <link>
element. I'm not sure where you would stash that canonical URL in your
document, though.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Lars Vogel
To: DocBook Apps
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:14
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] How to specify
rel="canonical in Docbook and conversion for HTML
Hi,
a while ago the big search engines introduce the rel="canonical
attribute in the header to identify the "main" content webpage, especially
useful if you have a chunks version and a single page version of your HTML
content.
This
is something which should go into the <head> section and may be
different per DocBook document. It would look like the following:
link rel="canonical" href="" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"
/>
Details can be found here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
Is this available in Docbook and considered by the XLST
Stylesheets?
Best regards, Lars
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