Re: DOCBOOK: Xref

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> was heard to say:
| / vpthoma@us.ibm.com was heard to say:
| | I am struggling to get cross references or links to a
| | cmdsynopsis. I want a list, of the commands, that I can click
| | on and be taken to the synopsis.  Norm's examples work for
| | equations and figures and such like, but I can't get it to
| | work with cmdsynopsis. I thought maybe it was because it
| 
| Ah, this is useful and interesting functionality! I'll see about
| adding it to the stylesheets. At the moment, there's only
| support for gentext lists of "formal" things.

The XSL DocBook Stylesheets V0.12, support a <?dbcmdlist?> PI that
produces a list of the <commandsynopsis>s within the element that
contains the PI.

| I think the short answer is that I need to add some more
| functionality.  <xref> to an <cmdsynopsis> ought to generate the
| name of the (first?)  command in the synopsis as the gentext,
| and ought to form the link.
| 
| I'll work on that right now! :-)

Done in 0.12.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | So, are you working on finding
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | that bug now, or are you leaving
Member, DocBook Editorial Board    | it until later? Yes.