I'm trying to add an ID attribute to DocBook's HTML TOC generation, like this:

<span class="sect1"><a id="Overview" 
href="foo/bar/things/Overview.html">Overview</a></span>
<ul>
<li><span class="sect2"><a id="KeyFeatures" 
href="foo/bar/things/KeyFeatures.html">Key Features</a></span></li>
<li><span class="sect2"><a id="sample" 
href="applications/sample.html">Sample</a></span></li>
</ul>
...


The ID value is simply taken from the xml:id value of the respective XML source 
tag

I need a nudge in the right direction. When I take a peek inside the DocBook 
dragon, er, rather, collection of .xsl files, I find that 
docbook-xsl-ns-1.75.1/html/autotoc.xsl in the html folder seems to be 
responsible for the TOC generation. I also see that line 318* right after the 
<span> nicely adds a class name to the enclosing span such that  <span 
class="sect1"> and so forth is written.

*<xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of 
select="local-name(.)"/></xsl:attribute>


I am guessing that if I add a similar line right after the subsequent <a>, I 
can get what I'm after. Something like:


<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="???"/></xsl:attribute>

But my question is, what do I add in for ???

And my other question is, is there a way to handle this in the customization 
layer?


-Tom Dobbs

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