[docbook-apps] qanda -> HTML missing <p> tag (was Problem using Q and A Sets)

[Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat dot com>]

I'm borrowing the was-subject from the 8 March 2004 thread that asked
about the same symptom.  I haven't been able to find any follow-up to
the original message, other than a single request from Bob Stayton for
more information.  Hopefully I can provide enough to diagnose what I
believe to be a bug in the XSL.

There is a visible line break in the HTML output of a <qandaset> across
the <td> that holds the "Q:." and the "A:.".  An example is here, scroll
down below the ToC to see:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3test2/

The questions appear like this:

  Q:. 
      What is SELinux? 

  A:. 
      SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) in Fedora Core is an
      implementation of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) ...

This line break is caused by a lack of <p></p> tags wrapping the "Q:."
and "A:." labels.  Within the several CSSes that style this page, one of
them gives a little padding to the <p></p> that makes this visible.

The symptom is in the HTML:

  <tr class="question"><td align="left" valign="top"><a
  name="id3355431"></a><a name="id3355434"></a><b>Q:. </b></td><td
  align="left" valign="top"><p>
              What is SELinux?
            </p></td></tr><tr class="answer"><td align="left" valign="top"><b>A:. </b></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
              SELinux (<i class="firstterm">Security-Enhanced Linux</i>) in Fedora Core is
	      an implementation of <i class="firstterm">Mandatory Access
		Control</i> (<span class="abbrev">MAC</span>) ...

The HTML renders in this way using a standard stylesheet.  I can
reproduce the error with the following:

  xmlto -x /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/chunk.xsl html \
  selinux-faq-en.xml

The stylesheet comes from docbook-style-xsl-1.61.2-2.1 running on Fedora
Core 1.  

Thanks - Karsten
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Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer
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