Hi,
I think this is a bug in the code that is triggered by the stylesheet param
'html.cleanup' = 1 (the default value). That code tries to resolve situations where a
<p> would be contained inside a <p> in the output, due to the structure of the XML
input, creating invalid HTML. There exist a bunch of templates in html/html-rtf.xsl in
mode="unwrap.p" that are executed recursively to try to "unwrap" such nested <p>
elements into sequential <p> elements. Such unwrapping is always kind of tricky. In
this case, it gets it wrong, but the code is not very well documented so I cannot
easily tell where it is going wrong.
The formalpara element in general tries to create a run-in heading in a para, so it
already is messing with the <para> element in the input to mix the <title> text with
the <para> in a single <p> output. Maybe that is not accounted for in
mode="unwrap.p".
I do know that:
a. The extra <p> element is empty, and does not display in the HTML output.
b. If you set html.cleanup=0, the problem goes away. However, I'm not sure what
other problems that setting might introduce.
c. Since the stylesheet cannot output a run-in heading on a list, you could change
your input to put the title on itemizedlist as follows:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V5.1b2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.1b2/dtd/docbook.dtd";>
<appendix
version = "5.1"
xml:lang = "en"
xmlns = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";>
<!-- <title role="hide">Hidden Title</title> -->
<itemizedlist>
<title>This is the title of a formalpara.</title>
<listitem><para>List item 1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>List item 2.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</appendix>
In this case, this markup is a better match to what you are trying to do than
formalpara.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "William R. Greene" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 8:42 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Possible formalpara bug
I am using DocBook 5.1b2 with the DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets 1.76.1. I have noticed
that translating a <formalpara> with a <title> results in two <p>s in the generated
XHTML 1.1. Here is the DocBook source (try.docbook):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V5.1b2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.1b2/dtd/docbook.dtd";>
<appendix
version = "5.1"
xml:lang = "en"
xmlns = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";>
<!-- <title role="hide">Hidden Title</title> -->
<formalpara>
<title>This is the title of a formalpara.</title>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>List item 1.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>List item 2.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</formalpara>
</appendix>
I translate the DocBook source thus:
xsltproc vendor/docbook-xsl-ns/xhtml-1_1/docbook.xsl try.docbook
The generated XHTML (prettied-up) is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>
<title>Appendix A. </title>
<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets V1.76.1"/>
</head>
<body>
<div xml:lang="en" class="appendix" title="Appendix A. ">
<div class="titlepage"/>
<p title="This is the title of a formalpara.">
<strong>This is the title of a formalpara. </strong>
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem"><p>List item 1.</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>List item 2.</p></li>
</ul>
</div>
<p title="This is the title of a formalpara."/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Why is '<p title="This is the title of a formalpara."' generated twice? Is this a bug
in the 1.76.1 stylesheets?
-- Bill Greene
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