Hi Bob, Thanks for your reply.
As far as I know all major search engines (Yahoo, Google, Microsoft) support this flag. I don't think customization would work (easily) as this rel="canonical" is specific to every document (==Docbook file). If I understand it right this would require a customization per document which would not be realistic for me to maintain. Best regards, Lars 2011/9/23 Bob Stayton <[email protected]> > ** > Hi Lars, > The short answer is no, the stylesheets don't do anything with link > rel="canonical". The reference is to the Google webmaster site. Is this > feature specific to Google? > > DocBook XSL does support customization of the <head> element by customizing > the utility template named 'user.head.content', as described here: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlHead.html > > That could be used to generate another <link> element. I'm not sure where > you would stash that canonical URL in your document, though. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Lars Vogel <[email protected]> > *To:* DocBook Apps <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:14 AM > *Subject:* [docbook-apps] How to specify rel="canonical in Docbook and > conversion for HTML > > Hi, > > a while ago the big search engines introduce the* *rel="canonical > attribute in the header to identify the "main" content webpage, especially > useful if you have a chunks version and a single page version of your HTML > content. > > This is something which should go into the <head> section and may be > different per DocBook document. It would look like the following: > > link rel="canonical" href=" > http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"; /> > > Details can be found here: > > > http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html > > Is this available in Docbook and considered by the XLST Stylesheets? > > Best regards, Lars > > -- > Lars > http://www.vogella.de - Eclipse, Android and Java Tutorials > http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter > > -- Lars http://www.vogella.de - Eclipse, Android and Java Tutorials http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter
