RE: DOCBOOK: Problem with glossseealso on html generation

[Martin West <martin at enigmatec dot net>]

Hhhmmm, just tried it again and no error, must have been some other
finger check, I suspect in cut/pasting the id= from the term to entry I
left a " behind, sorry to trouble you.

Thanks

Martin West

-----Original Message-----
From: bobs@caldera.com [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] 
Sent: 10 January 2003 19:09
To: Martin West
Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Problem with glossseealso on html generation


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:53:26PM +0000, Martin West wrote:
> 
> I have a glossseealso entry in a glossdef ...
>         <glossentry>
>             <glossterm id="gl-Exchange">Exchange</glossterm>
>             <glossdef>
>                 <para>An Exchange is a Request and its associated 
> Response.</para>
>                 <glossseealso otherterm="gl-Request"/>
>                 <glossseealso otherterm="gl-Response"/>
>             </glossdef>
>         </glossentry>
> 
>         <glossentry>
>             <glossterm id="gl-Request">Request</glossterm>
>             <glossdef>
>                 <para>A type of communication from source to target 
> where no
>                     response is guaranteed.</para>
>                 <glossseealso otherterm="gl-Oneway"/>
>             </glossdef>
>         </glossentry>
>         <glossentry>
>             <glossterm id="gl-Response">Response</glossterm>
>             <glossdef>
>                 <para>A type of communication from target to source 
> that always
>                     follows a request.</para>
>             </glossdef>
>         </glossentry>
> This compiles without error and the see also generates an html link 
> but html anchor point for the glossterm is not generated.
>
> I tried putting the id on the glossentry but this didn't compile .... 
> The definition for glossentry doesn't have an id attribute but the 
> example in 
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/glossary.html
> does albiet the sgml entry has an unquoted id value, which is 
> incorrect correct?

The DocBook DTD most certainly permits id on glossentry.
When I put the ID in glossentry in your example, the anchor is generated
and the link works.  It should also work with the id on glossterm, I
think, so that is probably a bug in the stylesheet.

What kind of error message do you get when you put an id on glossentry?

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