William McVey wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 12:49, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> 
>>Zahara wrote:
>>
>>>I am using a /table /in my docbook.  Each cell of the table contains a 
>>>preview image (using /mediaobject/).  Now, I need to associate another 
>>>image with it.  This second image should be opened /in a new window 
>>>/when the preview image is clicked. 
>>
>>I'm not sure to understand this last sentence.
> 
> 
> I think I understand the question, since it seems related to something I
> wanted to do and did some research on. It seems like Zahara is
> interested in converting her docbook to HTML, and wants the "preview
> image" mediaobject to be the hyperlink to another document/image. The
> problem is that ulink is an inline element, and mediaobjects are block
> elements which can't be contained within an inline. The only solution I
> could find for this task is to use the inlinemediaobject. This is less
> than ideal since captions and block level display don't occur (although
> when combined with literallayout, the effect is not too bad).
> 
> The next generation of DocBook (early alpha level of stability) will
> reportedly allow hyperlink from almost every kind of element (via
> attributes) without requiring a special linking element. This is still a
> ways away from mainstream availability though. I hope this addresses the
> question being asked (it's more docbook related than xxe, but that
> seemed to be the point of the question).
> 

Thanks for answering so well to Zahara's question.


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