Malo Pichot wrote: > > Can anybody explain to me how I can put a simple carriage return > bewteen to elements ? I'm in a <authorgroup> and I want to go to > a new line after a <firstname>, before a <email>.
My answer is general because at least in DocBook 4.1.2, an <authorgroup> (or an <author>) cannot contain an <email>. You cannot add a newline to an element which has not an xml:space="preserve" attribute. Without xml:space="preserve", a XML application such as XXE is free to do whatever it wants with whitespace. By default (missing xml:space or xml:space="default") XXE strips them. The DocBook DTD downloaded from oasys never uses the xml:space="preserve" attribute. We had to patch the 4.1.2 DTD to add xml:space="preserve" to obvious elements such as programlisting. This is detailed in http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/user/userguide5.html#id.s5 Note that just doing this is not sufficient, you'll have to also specify "white-space: pre;" in the CSS for the corresponding element. For example, we have added this for programlisting: programlisting { white-space: pre; } If you just want to have a newline before <email> just because it looks nicer, an easy solution is to just add a rule like this in the DocBook CSS: email:before { content: "\A"; } In such case, may be what you really want is that XMLmind adapts the DocBook CSS to DocBook 4.2?
