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RE: [docbook] HTML BR tags
- From: Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>
- To: 'Dave Viner' <dviner at yahoo-inc dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:44:41 -0400
- Subject: RE: [docbook] HTML BR tags
Could you perhaps be more specific as to why you want a line break?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Viner [mailto:dviner at yahoo-inc dot com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:50 PM
> To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
> Subject: RE: [docbook] HTML BR tags
>
>
> Hi Patrick,
> Thanks for your reply. I am actually using XSL to
> transform my xml into
> html already. I completely understand and like the
> seperation of layout
> from content that DocBook enables. However, in my case (and
> I suspect in
> many similar cases where generation of HTML is desired), it is very
> challenging to have the XML contain content markup
> exclusively. Although it
> is highly desirable to seperate the two, there are some cases
> where such
> seperation is extremely difficult to maintain.
> Therefore, while I completely agree that layout
> decisions should be
> seperated from content as much as possible, I believe that
> there might be a
> reasonable compromise that allows most users to interject
> desired layout
> elements without overly burdening or corrupting the content markup. I
> realize that what I am suggesting isn't so much a DocBook
> standard as it is
> (perhaps) a "recommendation" for use when one needs more
> direct correlation
> between the DocBook XML and the resultant HTML. This is why
> I suggested the
> use of the literallayout element with a role attribute. Does
> that make
> sense or am I way off base here?
> Perhaps this post would have been more appropriate for
> docbook-apps@
> instead of docbook at dot Please let me know if I have
> misdirected my comments.
> I certainly don't want to create more spam-ish emails for folks.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Eisenacher [mailto:eisenacher at fillmore-labs dot com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:24 AM
> To: Dave Viner
> Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] HTML BR tags
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Docbook is about marking up content, not about layout. The layout is
> done in the XSL transformation step. If you're not satisfied with the
> default layout, you'll have to do your changes/extensions via an XSL
> customization layer. Check those references for more info on XSL
> customizations:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/index.html
>
> and
>
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/
>
>
> Patrick
>
> Dave Viner schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > I am generating a DocBook XML file which I need to
> convert to HTML. In
> the
> > output HTML, I need to have a <br> tag appear. From reading
> > http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch02.html#d0e5767 and
> the archives,
> there
> > are several possible ways to insert a linebreak into the
> output HTML. It
> > seems to me that this is a very common problem for those
> need to generate
> > HTML from DocBook, and so would benefit from some sort of
> recommended or
> > standard solution. Is such a concept upcoming in future
> revisions of
> > DocBook?
> > If not, perhaps one possible solution would be to
> coerce a common
> attribute
> > of literallayout for this purpose. For example, <literallayout
> > role="linebreak" /> might be used as a common expression
> for the HTML br
> > tag.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave Viner
> >
>
>
>
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