Re: [docbook-apps] Newbie trying to make htmlhelp.dsl modifications

[Thomas Søndergaard <ts at medical-insight dot com>]

Never mind, the real solution is to make sure that indexterm's generate
anchors. This happens if html-index is defined as true. Thank you for
your help - sorry about all the traffic.

Cheers,

Thomas


On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 13:56, Thomas SÃndergaard wrote:
> That was very helpful. Again, I don't have the know-how to make this a
> general solution, but if I put my indexterms in sects and chapters and
> use parent(current-node) I get the desired result.
> 
> I have one remaining problem, and that is that I also want to have
> indexterm's in term's in a variablelist. term's can have indexterm
> children, but it doesn't generate an anchor in the html output. So as a
> sort of separate, but related problem:
> 
> How do I set up the stylesheet to generate anchors in the html output
> for term-elements?
> 
> Thank you for your invaluable help!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 09:54, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Thomas SÃndergaard wrote:
> > >   (element indexterm
> > >       (make sequence
> > > 	(make formatting-instruction data: "\less-than-sign;keyword")
> > >
> > > 	(make formatting-instruction data: (string-append " ref=\"" (href-to
> > > (current-node)) "\""))
> > >
> > > 	(make formatting-instruction data: "\greater-than-sign;")
> > >
> > > 	(process-children)
> > 
> > > An example of the problem I get is that for a particular section in
> > > the html generated from a docbook section with an indexterm I might
> > > have an anchor labeled AEN95, but the link I generate in the profile
> > > uses the anchor #AEN97.
> > 
> > You generate the link target using (href-to (current-node)), which 
> > creates a link to the, well, current node, which is the indexterm in 
> > that case.  You probably want to link to the nearest containing 
> > section.  (It kind of makes sense, the section is node 95, the title 
> > element is probably node 96, the indexterm is node 97.)  Instead of 
> > current-node, you need to work with the ancestor or ancestor-member 
> > functions or use the zone attribute throughout, whichever may be 
> > appropriate for your document.
> > 
>