On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 07:18:45PM +1100, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 23 March 2015 at 18:45, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:00:21AM +1100, Lex Trotman wrote:
> >> Hi Ken,
> >>
> >> On [[is,xreflabel]] the manual says " The optional <xreflabel> is only
> >> really useful when generating DocBook output.".
> >>
> >> That is because the docbook toolchains copy the xreflabel to the
> >> reference from the anchor.
> >>
> >> Since the HTMLs are generated directly by Asciidoc there is no
> >> toolchain to do that.  Asciidoc itself can't because it is a streaming
> >> processor that does not load the whole document in one go.
> >
> > THAT is a big limit!
> 
> Hi Marco,
> 
> Its such a big limit that nobody has submitted a change to remove it to date 
> :)
> 
> Seriously though it would be a complete re-write like asciidoctor.
> 
> And the docbook xslt toolchain produces html without javascript.

I missed this!

I was always asking myself the reason why to have 2 different methods to
produce HTML, that is a _good_ reason!

Using HTML as an output doc format means that something there is the need
to show doc text with a stripped down html viewer, without javascript and
such...

Thanks for the hint!

--


Marco Ciampa

I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

+------------------------+
| GNU/Linux User  #78271 |
| FSFE fellow       #364 |
+------------------------+

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"asciidoc" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to