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[docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.66.1 released
- From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>
- To: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:36:35 -0700
- Subject: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.66.1 released
DocBook XSL version 1.66.1 is now available for downloading from the DocBook
SourceForge site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
The test release 1.66.0 did not get any bug reports. In 1.66.1 a couple
more
bugs were fixed, and the Bosnian locale file was added.
Here is a summary of the significant changes since 1.65.1. It has been
awhile since the last distribution, so there were a lot of bug fixes and new
features. I'll be sending out a separate email describing the major changes
to olink processing. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
DocBook XSL Stylesheet Release Notes
Release 1.66.1
* A number of important bug fixes, documented in WhatsNew.
* Now xml:base attributes that are generated by an XInclude
processor are resolved for image files.
* Rewrote olink templates to support several new features.
+ Extended full olink support to FO output.
+ Add support for xrefstyle attribute in olinks.
+ New parameters to support new olink features:
insert.olink.page.number, insert.olink.pdf.frag, olink.debug,
olink.lang.fallback.sequence, olink.properties,
prefer.internal.olink. See the reference page for each
parameter for more information.
* Added index.on.type parameter for new type attribute introduced
in DocBook 4.3 for indexterms and index. This allows you to create
multiple indices containing different categories of entries. For
users of 4.2 and earlier, you can use the new parameter
index.on.role instead.
* Added new section.autolabel.max.depth parameter to turn off
section numbering below a certain depth. This permits you to
number major section levels and leave minor section levels
unnumbered.
* Added footnote.sep.leader.properties attribute set to format the
line separating footnotes in printed output.
* Added parameter img.src.path as a prefix to HTML img src
attributes. The prefix is added to whatever path is already
generated by the stylesheet for each image file.
* Added new attribute-sets informalequation.properties,
informalexample.properties, informalfigure.properties, and
informaltable.properties, so each such element type can be
formatted individually if needed.
* Add component.label.includes.part.label parameter to add any part
number to chapter, appendix and other component labels when the
label.from.part parameter is nonzero. This permits you to
distinguish multiple chapters with the same chapter number in
cross references and the TOC.
* Added chunk.separate.lots parameter for HTML output. This
parameter lets you generate separate chunk files for each LOT
(list of tables, list of figures, etc.).
* Added several table features:
+ Added table.table.properties attribute set to add properties
to the fo:table element.
+ Added placeholder templates named table.cell.properties and
table.cell.block.properties to enable adding properties to
any fo:table-cell or the cell's fo:block, respectively. These
templates are a start for implementing table styles.
* Added new attribute set component.title.properties for easy
modifications of component's title formatting in FO output.
* Added Saxon support for an encoding attribute on the textdata
element. Added new parameter textdata.default.encoding which
specifies encoding when encoding attribute on ]textdata is
missing.
* Template label.this.section now controls whole section label, not
only sub-label which corresponds to particular label. Former
behaviour was IMHO bug as it was not usable.
* Formatting in titleabbrev for TOC and headers is preserved when
there are no hotlink elements in the title. Formerly the title
showed only the text of the title, no font changes or other
markup.
* Added intial.page.number template to set the initial-page-number
property for page sequences in print output. Customizing this
template lets you change when page numbering restarts. This is
similar to the format.page.number template that lets you change
how the page number formatting changes in the output.
* Added force.page.count template to set the force-page-count
property for page sequences in print output. This is similar to
the format.page.number template.
* Sort language for localized index sorting in autoidx-ng.xsl is now
taken from document lang, not from system environment.
* Numbering and formatting of normal and ulink footnotes (if turned
on) has been unified. Now ulink footnotes are mixed in with any
other footnotes.
* Added support for renderas attribute in section and sect1 et al.
This permits you to render a given section title as if it were a
different level.
* Added support for label attribute in footnote to manually
supply the footnote mark.
* Added support for DocBook 4.3 corpcredit element.
* Added support for a dbfo keep-together PI for formal objects
(table, figure, example, equation, programlisting). That permits a
formal object to be kept together if it is not already, or to be
broken if it is very long and the default keep-together is not
appropriate.
* For graphics files, made file extension matching case insensitive,
and updated the list of graphics extensions.
* Allow calloutlist to have block content before the first
callout
* Added dbfo-need processing instruction to provide soft page
breaks.
* Added implementation of existing but unused
default.image.width parameter for graphics.
* Support DocBook NG tag inline element.
* It appears that XEP now supports Unicode characters in bookmarks.
There is no further need to strip accents from characters.
* Make segmentedlist HTML markup more semantic and available to
CSS styles.
* Added user.preroot placeholder template to permit xsl-stylesheet
and other PIs and comments to be output before the HTML root
element.
* Non-chunked legalnotice now gets an <a name="id"> element in HTML
output so it can be referenced with xref or link.
* In chunked HTML output, changed link rel="home" to rel="start",
and link rel="previous" to rel="prev", per W3C HTML 4.01 spec.
* Added several patches to htmlhelp from W. Borgert
* Added Bosnian locale file as common/bs.xml.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net