Hi Lars, The short answer is no, the stylesheets don't do anything with link rel="canonical". The reference is to the Google webmaster site. Is this feature specific to Google?
DocBook XSL does support customization of the <head> element by customizing the utility template named 'user.head.content', as described here: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HtmlHead.html That could be used to generate another <link> element. I'm not sure where you would stash that canonical URL in your document, though. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Lars Vogel To: DocBook Apps Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:14 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] How to specify rel="canonical in Docbook and conversion for HTML Hi, a while ago the big search engines introduce the rel="canonical attribute in the header to identify the "main" content webpage, especially useful if you have a chunks version and a single page version of your HTML content. This is something which should go into the <head> section and may be different per DocBook document. It would look like the following: link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"; /> Details can be found here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html Is this available in Docbook and considered by the XLST Stylesheets? Best regards, Lars -- Lars http://www.vogella.de - Eclipse, Android and Java Tutorials http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter
