Re: [docbook-apps] processing-instruction does not work within <link> tag

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Flavia,
HTML does not support nested links, so that any hot text for a link must 
be processed in a special way to turn off any nested links.  The content 
is processed in mode="no.anchor.mode".  As it turns out, there is no 
template for processing instructions in that mode.  But the easy fix is 
to add this to your customization layer:

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction()" mode="no.anchor.mode">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:template>

This then uses the regular template for the processing instruction.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 3/15/2015 6:56 PM, Flavia Majlis wrote:
> I am using libxml2-2.7.8 and docbook-xsl-1.78.1
>
> In my customization layer, I have a processing instruction which
> consists of a simple text string:
>
> <xsl:template match="processing-instruction('brand')">ABC</xsl:template>
>
> and in my .xml I have a link:
>
> <link linkend='my_section_id'>The brand is <?brand?></link>
>
> In the pdf output link I see: "The brand is ABC"
> but in the html link text I see "The brand is"
>
> In most of the rest of the html output the instruction is being
> processed and <?brand?> is replaced by "ABC".
>
> Any ideas why the processing-instruction('brand') is not being processed
> within the <link> tag for the html output?
> Thanks,
> Flavia
>
>
>
>
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