At 12:16 PM 5/5/03, you wrote:
Chris,
Also worth the look is how the documents are set up for XMetaL. Remember
XMetaL is also an SGML editor, which accounts for some of its XML
weirdnesses. One thing I've found is it seems to make a difference whether
an XML declaration is present, and what it says. If there isn't one there,
XMetaL may be applying some SGML rules.
I think. I haven't dug into their docs or support to substantiate the
details of any of this.
(No longer an XSL question...)
Cheers,
Wendell
Thanks for your help, everybody!
Some replies:
Yes, the documents do have an XML declaration, almost always with the
following form:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "+//ISBN 0-9673008-1-9//DTD OEB 1.0.1 Document//EN"
"oebdoc101.dtd">
I do need to use XML output, not HTML output -- as someone pointed out,
HTML output produces tags
like <BR>, which aren't allowed in my structure (which is much closer to
XHTML than HTML).
Several people suggested forcing a space (or a non-breaking space) into the
empty anchor tag so
that it would no longer be empty, but that would add an extra space into my
copy (which would
mean that the content is incorrect), and in any case, I'd end up with an
underlined (hyperlinked)
space which I don't want. These are actually intended to be target anchors,
not clickable hyperlinks.
So if I did force a space in this spot, I'd just have to come back in and
take it out again, so I'm
still stuck with a post-process step.
It sounds like I'm stuck with what I've been doing already. Oh well -- it
works, so I'm not complaining
(too much).
Thanks again!
At 03:03 PM 5/2/2003, Joe wrote:
>Yes, I know that '<a id="page-1"></a>' and '<a id="page-1" />' are
supposed
>to be equivalent,
>but one of the tools my users use (XMetaL) doesn't.
First thing to check, if you haven't already done so: Make sure your
stylesheet is set to HTML ouput mode, not XML. The /> convention is not
really supported in HTML.
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