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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Bibliography vs. olinks
Hi Bob, Yes, we are using DocBook 4 at this time; we've tried to move to DB5 but decided against it for now - primarily because of libxslt's issues with RelaxNG validation and namespace handling issues. Regards, Alexey. On Monday, September 09, 2013 10:38:21 am Bob Stayton wrote: > Hi Alexey, > I think a better solution is to make the biblioentry element itself into an > "olink" using the universal linking scheme in DocBook 5.0. For an > example, see the last line in Table 4.1 in this doc: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Db5Tools.html#Db5UnivLinking > > Unfortunately, the stylesheet currently does not support the universal > linking feature for biblioentry. It should be changed to call the > 'simple.xlink' template if it has those linking attributes, then it would > behave as an olink. That is a deficiency that should be corrected for the > next release of the stylesheets, and would not require a change to the > schema. > > You mention DTD, so perhaps you are using DocBook 4 and would not be able > to use universal linking? > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > bobs@sagehill.net > > > From: Alexey Neyman > Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:27 PM > To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [docbook-apps] Bibliography vs. olinks > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a set of documents that cross-reference each other. They also > mention each other in their bibliography sections. > > > > So, the most natural way I thought of was: > > > > <biblioentry> > > <olink targetdoc="some-other-document"/> > > </biblioentry> > > > > Indeed, since all the necessary document info is already in the olink > database - why not use it? Unfortunately, DTD stopped me from doing that. > :) > > > > So, I tried to wrap the <olink/> above in <citetitle/>. That passed the > validation, but the docbook-xsl stylesheets interpreted this as a > reference to an external bibliography file, and failing to load that > external entity, emitted an error message: > > > > warning: failed to load external entity > "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/bibliography/bibliography.xml" > > No bibliography entry: idp71680 found in > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/bibliography/bibliography.xml > > > > So, I see two possible ways of dealing with this: > > > > - to process the whole set of documents to create that "bibliography > collection" (which, I guess, would work - but seems to be an overkill, > given the availability of the required information in the olink database) > > > > OR > > > > - to customize the DTD to allow <olink/> as a direct child of > <biblioentry/> and to customize the match="biblioentry" template to handle > such olinks. > > > > Am I missing some obvious way of dealing with this problem? > > > > If I follow the latter approach, would it be a welcome addition to > docbook-xsl stylesheets? > > > > Regards, > > Alexey.
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