Hi Lars, No, it would not require a customization per document, but if the URL value is specific to each document, it would require the URL value to be either present in the document for the stylesheet to access, or passed to the stylesheet at run time using a stylesheet param. A custom template could use either one to generate the link.
Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Lars Vogel To: Bob Stayton Cc: DocBook Apps Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] How to specify rel="canonical in Docbook and conversion for HTML 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 To: DocBook Apps 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
