You may also be able to get around the problem using a[href]{} in your
css instead of just a{}:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.docbook.apps/19015/
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael(tm) Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:21 AM
> To: Andy Smith
> Cc: DocBook Apps
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] <link linkend> in XHTML output
>
> Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2008-10-02 06:49 +0100:
>
> > 2008/10/1 Lillian Sullam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > 2. In every part of my chunked document the text reacts to any
> > > "hovering" of the mouse. This should not happen, not all
> of the text is a link.
> > [...]
> > > I have a feeling this has to do with the <a> tag being
> closed with a "/"
> > > instead of </a>, but why is this happening?
> >
> > I think you're right, and you'll see the behaviour you describe if
> > your browser is interpreting the file as plain HTML rather
> than XHTML.
> > In plain HTML the </a> closing tag is mandatory, and I guess the
> > browser is treating the <a.../> as an opening tag (and acting as if
> > there's a closing tag later in the document) rather than an empty
> > element.
>
> Yep, because browsers don't parse text/html content as XML --
> they parse it as HTML, and in the HTML syntax that browsers
> support, <a.../> means the same thing as <a...> (the HTML
> parsers in browsers pay no attention to that slash).
>
> That's just one of several reasons why it's not a good idea
> to serve XSLT-generated [EMAIL PROTECTED] content as text/html.
>
> [...]
> > If you use the stylesheets' HTML rather than XHTML output I think
> > you'll get closing tags and results that will generally be
> OK with the
> > text/html content type.
>
> I think that's the best advice in general. For most cases,
> there is zero harm in generating HTML content from XSLT using
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and much good in that it will prevent the
> <a.../> problem, and others too.
>
> --Mike
>
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