shawngiese at bluemail.ch wrote: > I have had good success with making PDFs from complete docbook files > (book.xml) > so I decided to break out the chapters as system entities so that I could > make some different books with them. Again, all is going fine EXCEPT hotlinks > to sections that are now in different files. > > Previously link or xrefs resolved nicely but now they do not when I make > the book.xml. I read that olink might be the solution but try as I might > I cannot get that to work (I made an olinkdb.xml, target.db is generated > nicely for the entire book.xml) but for the life of me I cannot get FO > Convertor > (and apache) to make PDF links with olink. > > Are their any ideas on how to make internal links in a book.xml made up of > various chapters.xml files? I really like the xref solution as it auto > generates > some nice text and even gave page numbers to the link (when links are in > the same source chapter.xml). Now those same xrefs give me the generated > text (or even an xref label) but there is no page number and the link does > not work (Acrobat says it is an empty link) when the linkend is in another > chapter file being merged under a book.xml file. >
Here's what we do here at XMLmind. We don't know if it is kosher because we are not DocBook zealots. Example: * book.xml contains chapter1.xml and chapter2.xml. * chapter1.xml has a section #1 having id="sa" and section #2 having id="sb". * chapter2.xml has a section #1 having id="s1" and section #2 having id="s2". * I'm writing chapter3.xml (will be part of book.xml) and want to reference section #1 of chapter1.xml. I use for example <link linkend="sa">foo</link>. * Then I want to reference section #2 of chapter2.xml. I use for example <xref linkend="s2"/>. * Then I save chapter3.xml. XXE says that IDs "sa" and "s2" are not found ***but I don't care***. * Then I include chapter3.xml in book.xml using XXE (see http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/user/userguide3.html#id.s3) and I save book.xml. And in this context, I make sure to have no "unknown ID" error messages. * I then convert book.xml to PDF and have no hotlink problems.
