On 7 Jan 2008, at 16:29, Dave Pawson wrote:
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.
I hadn't thought of it that way. TDG says 'Identifies the desired
footnote mark' and I had always assumed a literal label. We use the
xml:id attribute to generate links and just use the label to generate
the visible portion of the link.
Possibly pre-process your input documents to exchange (unicode
oddities) for fn1, fn2 in pairs?
Sadly the majority of our input documents are pdfs containing 300-400
TIFFs or actual hardcopy.
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?
See above :(
nic
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