Re: [docbook-apps] another website olink pest: external olinks almost working, but not quite

["Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>]

I think the following change to the file pointed by your
$target.database.document parameter:

<sitemap>
  <dir name="toplevel">
    <document targetdoc="website"/>
    <dir name="bookid">
      <document targetdoc="bookid">
        [reference to its targets file]
      </document>
    </dir>
  </dir>
</sitemap>

and then when you process your website files, set the current.docid
parameter to "website".  When the processor uses the
$target.database.document, it will start at the toplevel directory (whose
name is never output) to compute the relative path to the "bookid"
targetdoc, which is in "bookid" directory according to your example.

Let me know if that doesn't work.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Atkin" <ianatkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Docbook-Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:49 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] another website olink pest: external olinks almost
working, but not quite


> boring details:-
> - website v2.5.0
> - docbook xsl v1.65.1 (downgraded due to the olink changes)
> - saxon 6.5.3
> - running process via Ant
>
> i am making a test case of a typcial docbook website that contains
> internal olinks and olinks to an external book. all the internal stuff
> works fine, thanks to ansers to previous posts
>
> my problem is that an olink to an external book has the wrong relative
> path, some details may help:-
>
> everything is done in a single directory, say OUT_DIR, apart from a
> single 'book'
> - all processes run with OUT_DIR as current directory
> - all manual made files are copied into OUT_DIR
> - all website generated files are written into OUT_DIR
> - the target database for the book is written into OUT_DIR
> - the book is chunked into OUT_DIR/bookid/
>
> the generated URL in my website olink is 'ch02.html' instead of
> 'bookid/ch02.html'
>
> i know i've got most of it working because the gentext is right, but I
> can't figure out why the URL is wrong
>
> when i generate the site without the $current.docid I get a message
> saying relative links can't be made, but it makes no difference if I
> pass in 'current.docid=bookid'
>
> i'm sure i'm doing or not doing something really stupid, but can't
> figure out what, any help seriously appreciated
>
> Ian Atkin
>
>