Nic Gibson wrote:
Hi
I've been working with some data converters to get a large chunk of the
Penguin backlist converted into XML. We've had some feedback from the
converters about footnotes. The label attribute for footnotes is typed as
NMTOKEN in the schema. As far as I can see, any other element which has a
label attribute has the type set as 'text'.
Have our converters hit a bug here or is there a subtle reason I haven't
worked out?
The problem for the converters is that some of our older texts don't use
alphanumerics as footnote labels, they use things like asterisks and
crosses. Any ideas or suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Quite possibly because it's an id/idref pair which produce the link?
That requires the nmtoken IIRC.
Possibly pre-process your input documents to exchange (unicode oddities)
for fn1, fn2 in pairs?
Pre-process with xslt and within any given scope matching your footnotes
(say chapters) do the same swap in an identity transform, leaving
everything else alone?
HTH
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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