Not sure who maintains the xhtml stylesheets, but it might be a nice
improvement to drop the <a> anchors altogether and just use the id
attribute on elements, which can be linked to using the standard <a
href="#blah">:
http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/cleaning-up-code-with-semantic-anchors
That's an off-the-cuff comment; I'm not sure what other XSL changes that
might entail.
With regard to browser support, the article linked above has:
Note that Netscape 4 does not properly support this, neither do some mobile
browsers. In the case of the latter, at least, we can expect them to add
support for this in the foreseeable future, whereas those who still have to
support Netscape 4 will be less fortunate.
Java's HTML rendered may or may not work with this approach, so that'd
be a deal-breaker. But this could be a nice enhancement to the xhtml
stylesheets.
Brett
PS: For CSS questions, I recommend the excellent css-d list:
http://www.css-discuss.org/
On 12/3/2007 3:37 PM, David Cramer wrote:
I ran across a little more info about this. If you do what I suggested
previously, a[href]{ color: red; text-decoration: underline;}, then your
problem is fixed in firefox, but you've got a new problem in IE (in 7
anyway...not sure about others). It appears that IE 7 doesn't recognize
the a[href] selector. So your caught between a mozilla bug (inabiilty to
see that <a/> is the same as <a></a>) and an IE bug (inabilty to
recognize a[href]). So here's my advice:
1. Don't style link text (best approach...I don't style them except for
this one css that I inherited, which is where I ran across this problem)
2. If you do, ask someone on a css list how to deal with the problem,
given that your content will have lots of <a id="foo"/> tags and you
can't/don't want to force them to be <a id="foo"></a>.
3. You could try getting your output to look like this, but I'm no css
expert. This seems to handle IE and Firefox, but I don't know about
other browsers:
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
a[href]{ color: red; text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
a{ color: red; text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:39 AM
To: David Cramer; Barton Wright
Cc: docbook-apps
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Weird characters in generated HTML
David,
The change to the CSS did the trick!! Thanks.
Cheers,
Eric
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