Using ulink

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:35 -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 12:09 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> > 
> >>Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>, spake thus:
> >>
> >>
> >>>But wait!  It gets easier.  DocBook XML specifies that when the XML tag
> >>>closes itself (i.e. you don't provide any link text), the link itself is
> >>>used as the text for any rendering process.  So what you should probably
> >>>do instead, for better XML readability, is this:
> >>>
> >>><ulink url="http://some.link.to/somewhere/"/>
> >>
> >>Could you (or someone who has time) check this using a small example
> >>with Apache FOP?  This is so clever that it may not be implemented in
> >>some rederers.  IIRC, the tentative PDF rendering solution was to
> >>involve FOP.
> > 
> > 
> > Great idea -- I don't have FOP, but this is defined behavior in the
> > DocBook standards (as opposed to any cleverness on my part -- I just
> > read it in DocBook:TDG!), so I'll be very surprised if it doesn't
> > deliver as promised. 
> 
> Keep in mind that this is the "recommended" behavior for the 
> stylesheets. In reality, an implementer can do whatever she wants.
> 
> Fortunately, though, the (xsl) stylesheets are mostly developed by the 
> same folks who work on the DocBook schema standards, so the docbook xsl 
> stylesheets are likely compliant.
> 
> > I'll yield this task to someone who has it
> > installed.  Is Mark Johnson out there?  I thought he used FOP, but I'm
> > not sure.
> 
> I'd be happy to do a FOP build if someone can suggest an FDP doc for the 
> test build...

Stuart's yum tutorial "yum-software-management" uses this XML syntax, so
it would make a good test candidate.

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