[docbook-apps] invisible footnote (in note) in qandaset when using FOP to generate a .pdf

[Paul Stubbe]

I do not know if the following issue is a docbook or a FOP issue.
But as a happy Docbook user, I start my search for a solution on this list.

The footnote content is lost (?) during the fo to pdf processing whenever I
put a footnote in a qandaset.
Is this because of a wrong usage of docbook or a problem with my tool chain?

I use

- docbook-xsl-1.73.2

- saxon6-5-5

- fop-0.93



Input:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<book version="5.0" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";

      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";

      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";

      xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";

      xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";

      xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";

      xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";>

  <title>Test DocBook 5.0</title>

  <chapter>

    <title>Test Pdf</title>

    <section>

      <title>invisible footnote in note in qandaset</title>

      <qandaset>

        <qandadiv>

          <qandaentry>

            <question>

              <para>Question</para>

            </question>

            <answer>

              <para>Answer</para>

              <note>

                <para>Note with a footnote<footnote>

                    <para>This is the 'invisible' footnote.</para>

                  </footnote></para>

              </note>

            </answer>

          </qandaentry>

        </qandadiv>

      </qandaset>

    </section>

  </chapter>

</book>





Using:

java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o test.fo test.xml docbook.xsl

fop  test.fo test.pdf



Generates the outputs: .fo and .pdf



…

<fo:block space-before.optimum="1em" space-before.minimum="0.8em"
space-before.maximum="1.2em">Note with a
footnote<fo:footnote><fo:inline><fo:inline font-size="75%"
font-weight="normal" font-style="normal"
baseline-shift="super">1</fo:inline></fo:inline><fo:footnote-body
font-family="serif,Symbol,ZapfDingbats" font-size="8pt" font-weight="normal"
font-style="normal" text-align="justify" start-indent="0pt"
text-indent="0pt">

                    <fo:block><fo:inline font-size="75%"
font-weight="normal" font-style="normal"
baseline-shift="super">1</fo:inline>This is the 'invisible'
footnote.</fo:block>

                  </fo:footnote-body></fo:footnote></fo:block>

…

…

*Note*

Note with a footnote1



…



But the footnote content: "This is the 'invisible' footnote." is lost during
the fo to pdf processing



Any hints about what I should do?



Thanks,



Paul