Thank you for this contribution.
Denis Bradford wrote:
> We use lots of olinks in our docbook. Olinks are a fabulous advance
> in cross-referencing (as explained in Bob Stayton's The Complete
> Guide) but we have one difficulty with them: it's a pain for authors
> to look up target attributes (targetdoc and targetptr). They're are
> scattered throughout all our olink databases, and reading raw xml
> will make you blind.
>
> So in case anybody else can use it, here's my low-tech solution, as
> usual standing on the shoulders of giants, taking advantage of XXE's
> CSS formatting.
>
> Snip the lines below and save as sitemap.css:
>
>
> /***************************************************************
> sitemap.css
>
> This CSS renders a docbook sitemap file in XML Mind in a form-like
> format. A sitemap catalogs olink targets across documents for
> DocBook cross-referencing. Olink targets can be included as olink
> databases generated by DocBook, or entered manually in the sitemap.
>
> I think the formatting makes the sitemap more useable than the raw XML
> for authors looking up olink targets. That's the intent anyway.
> To use it, simply edit your sitemap and add a call to this file under
> the XML declaration, like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="sitemap.css"?>
>
> Then copy this file to where the href points, and open your
> sitemap XML file in XXE. Note that this file uses some non-standard
> XXE-based CSS to display attributes, so it won't work correctly in a
> web browser.
>
> Note that XML Mind displays olink databases that are included in your
> sitemap. As with any master document in XXE, a tinted background
> indicates a referenced, non-editable document; local content
> and manual document entries have a white background and can be edited.
>
> ***************************************************************/
>
>
> targetsetinfo {
> display:block;
> padding: 5px;
> color: gray;
> }
>
> /*
> DIR rules
> */
>
> dir:before {
> content: "<dir>\A"attributes();
> margin-top: 20px;
> margin-left: 20px;
> font-size:150%;
> font-weight: bold;
> color: red;
>
> }
>
> dir::attribute() {
> display:block;
> attribute-content-left: attribute-label() ":";
> attribute-content-middle: value-editor(attribute, attribute());
> show-attribute: always;
> }
>
>
> /*
> dir::attribute(name) {
> attribute-content-left: "name: ";
> }
> */
>
> dir {
> display:block;
> padding: 5px;
> margin: 5px;
> border: 2px dotted green;
> }
>
>
> /*
> DOCUMENT rules
> */
>
> document:before {
> content:"<document>\A"attributes();
> margin-top: 20px;
> margin-left: 20px;
> font-size:120%;
> font-weight: bold;
> color: green;
>
> }
>
> document::attribute() {
> attribute-content-left: attribute-label() ":";
> attribute-content-middle: value-editor(attribute, attribute());
> show-attribute: always;
> }
>
> document::attribute(targetdoc) {
> attribute-content-left: "Targetdoc:";
> }
>
> document {
> display:block;
> padding: 5px;
> margin: 5px;
> margin-left: 10px;
> }
>
>
> /*
> DIV rules
> */
>
> div:before {
> content:"<div>\A" attributes();
> margin-top: 20px;
> margin-left: 20px;
> font-size:100%;
> font-weight: bold;
> color: blue;
>
> }
>
> div::attribute() {
> attribute-content-left: attribute-label() ":";
> attribute-content-middle: value-editor(attribute, attribute());
> show-attribute: always;
> }
>
> div::attribute(number) {
> show-attribute: never;
> /* attribute-content-left: "Number:";*/
> }
>
> div {
> display:block;
> padding: 5px;
> margin: 5px;
> margin-left: 10px;
> border: 1px solid black;
>
> }
>
> div {display:block;}
>
> ttl:before {
> content: "Ttl: ";
> color: blue;
> font-size:100%;
> font-weight: bold;
> }
>
> ttl {display:block;}
>
> xreftext:before {
> content: "Xreftext: ";
> color: blue;
> font-size:100%;
> font-weight: bold;
> }
>
> xreftext {display:block;}
>
>
>
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