Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Glossary in FO output: where should 'id' attributego?

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:40:20PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using XSL stylesheets version 1.60.0, though the ChangeLog for
> 1.60.1 doesn't lead me to believe it would be different in that
> version.
> 
> Following TDG, I have been placing 'id' attributes in the glossentry
> elements within a glossary.  This causes some peculiar rendering of
> glosssee and glossseealso elements.  This minimal example:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "/usr/local/share/xml/docbook/docbookx.dtd">
> <article>
>   <glossary>
>     <glossentry id="g:foo">
>       <glossterm>foo</glossterm>
>       <glossdef>
> 	<para>Foo bar baz.</para>
>       </glossdef>
>     </glossentry>
> 
>     <glossentry id="g:text">
>       <glossterm>text</glossterm>
>       <glosssee otherterm="g:foo">foo</glosssee>
>     </glossentry>
>   </glossary>
> </article>
> 
> causes the following output in the resultant PDF:
> 
> ---
> Glossary 
> 
> foo    Foo bar baz. 
> 
> text   See fooFoo bar baz..
> ---
> 
> The text within the glossdef element of the target is placed between
> "foo" and the full stop.  Placing 'id="g:foo"' in the glossterm
> element rather than the glossentry produces the expected output.  Is
> this a bug with the XSL, or have I missed something obvious?

This was a bug, now fixed in CVS.
Same problem (now fixed) in HTML, by the way.

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