Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting man page references to links

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:15:59PM -0500, Bradford, Denis wrote:
> Running chunk.html v 1.48 I'm trying to generate a link from the following
> citerefentry code:
> 
> <citerefentry><refentrytitle>file</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
> 
> The target seems to be coded okay: 
> 
> <refentry><refnamediv><refname>file</refname>
> ...
> 
> This generates a link, but the target is empty: <a href="">file</a>
> 
> The strange thing is, when I look at inline.xsl, the template that's
> supposed to do the work is a nop:
> 
> <xsl:template name="generate.citerefentry.link">
>   <!-- nop -->
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Anybody know what's wrong with this picture?

My reading of the XSL stylesheets and the HTML parameter
reference for the 'citerefentry.link' parameter suggests
that <citerefentry> is intended to generate a web link,
not an internal link.  And you get to write the template
that generates that link.  A little do-it-yourself project.  8^)

For internal links, you might try using <xref> or <link> to
the refentry page id instead.  

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