Michael_Rudolf at gmx.de wrote: > while viewing a DocBook file with XXE I noticed that ulink tags without > content are not displayed correctly. They are rendered as empty elements, > although - as stated in the DocBook documentation - the value of the url > attribute should be shown instead. Example: > > <ulink url="http://www.cnn.com/"; /> > > results in > > <a href="http://www.cnn.com/";>http://www.cnn.com/</a> > > while XXE doesn't seem to recognize this rule.
When rendering a DocBook document *on screen*, we don't really try to implement the processing expectations described in http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html. However you are right, this should be improved. Currently, there is no elegant way to do this. To really improve the rendering of empty ulinks we need a feature "label(xpath,...)" (see http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/csssupport/ch05s21.html) that will be implemented in V2.8.
