Hi Robert,
The body attributes come from a template dedicated to that purpose. See the template
named 'body.attributes' in html/docbook.xsl. If you define that as an empty template
in your customization layer, you will get no body attributes.
Note that these attributes are defined in a template and not in an xsl:attribute-set.
The problem with attribute-set is that custom attribute sets are merged with the
original. There is no way for an attribute-set in a customization layer to turn off
an attribute entirely once it has been defined in an attribute-set. You can override
the value, or set the value to 'inherit' or something, but you cannot eliminate the
attribute. Using a template avoids that problem.
There is one attribute in body.attributes that you might want to keep. If you are
producing any documents that read right to left (Hebrew or Arabic, for example), then
keep the 'dir' attribute as defined there so the HTML will display properly for those
languages.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Nagle" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 3:43 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] html output: removing unneeded body attributes?
I'm trying to generate HTML output.
I see that the body element contains this:
<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084"
alink="#0000FF">
Because I'm doing my styling mainly in css, I don't need these
defaults. I realize that I can probably override this in css, but is
there a db parameter for turning this off in the body element?
I tried enabling 2 parameters,
<xsl:param name="html.cleanup" select="1"></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="make.clean.html" select="1"></xsl:param>
but this did not seem to have any effect on this. (By the way, is it
all right to use both parameters simultaneously?
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Robert Nagle
12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417
Houston, Texas 77082
713 893 3424
http://www.robertnagle.info
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