Thanks for that. I'll have a look at it, and yes I do have a customisation
layer. I'll also look into the web help format.




On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Peter Desjardins <
[email protected]> wrote:

> [switching to docbook-apps list]
>
> That use case sounds reasonable, although in my opinion making
> headings links to themselves sounds a little confusing to users. I
> typically use the webhelp output format instead of direct HTML so my
> output displays the TOC on every page. It's easy for me to copy the
> URL for any page from that TOC.
>
> To do what you are describing, I would start by taking a look at the
> section.heading template in the html/sections.xsl file. Here's a
> snippet from that template:
>
> <xsl:element name="h{$hlevel}">
>     <xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of
> select="$class"/></xsl:attribute>
>     <xsl:if test="$css.decoration != '0'">
>       <xsl:if test="$hlevel&lt;3">
>         <xsl:attribute name="style">clear: both</xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:if>
>     <xsl:if test="$allow-anchors != 0">
>       <xsl:call-template name="anchor">
>         <xsl:with-param name="node" select="$section"/>
>         <xsl:with-param name="conditional" select="0"/>
>       </xsl:call-template>
>     </xsl:if>
>     <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
>   </xsl:element>
>
> The line <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/> enters the text of the
> heading. You could experiment with adding an <xsl:element
> name="a"><xsl:attribute name="href"> enclosure around that xsl:copy
> element.
>
> You'd have to get the ID of the parent section in order to complete
> the href attribute. That should be available from the $section
> parameter of the template. But the way you get the ID depends on how
> your source DocBook is formed.
>
> Also, this would not affect chapter titles. You'd need to hunt down
> the template that writes chapter headings and do something similar.
>
> You'll need to get a little intimate with the XSLT in order to do this
> my way. I am assuming you already have a customization layer
> (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer
> ).
> Maybe someone has a simpler solution.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:53 PM, natk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > The use-case for this is you're reading the document, and you want to
> > communicate a particular spot in the document to someone else. You click
> on
> > the document, and that gives you the URL (document#anchor) to send.
> >
> > Nat
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Peter Desjardins
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> Typically, this sort of question should go to
> >> [email protected] because it is about publishing tools
> >> rather than the XML source.
> >>
> >> I can image writing customization code that would do this. It doesn't
> >> look too difficult once you find the template that writes the
> >> headings.
> >>
> >> But I'm curious about the intent. Do you want to make each heading a
> >> link to itself? I don't understand how that would be useful.
> >>
> >> Maybe I am not understanding what you are trying to accomplish?
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:36 PM, natk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I wondered if there is any way of creating clickable titles in the
> HTML
> >> > output of docbook.
> >> >
> >> > The output would look something like:
> >> >
> >> > <h1 id="title"><a href="#title">Title</a></h1>
> >> >
> >> > The reason for doing this would be to be able to identify and
> >> > communicate
> >> > particular sections of a document.
> >> >
> >> > Nat
> >
> >
>

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