Re: [docbook-apps] Should xmllint successfully validate docbook 5 containing XIncludes?

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Stayton
The short answer is no, xmllint does not successfully validate DocBook 5 documents that are in fact valid. I normally use Jing to validate DocBook 5. I've not seen it hang like you have. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net -- Fr

Re: [docbook-apps] Title of a toc, when toc is generated at a user-specified position

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Stayton
Hi Erik, Setting a completely empty 'generate.toc' param is a little too much it seems. Instead of: use one that specifies only the title for a book toc: book title That will generate the title for the relocated toc, with one glitch. If you are using the default 'header.content' templat

[docbook-apps] Title of a toc, when toc is generated at a user-specified position

2013-10-28 Thread Erik Leunissen
When choosing to place the TOC of a book after the book's preface, it appears that one loses[*] the TOC's generated title as a side-effect. That is, when following the recipe in this URL: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200705/msg00023.html What's the best approach to make

Re: [docbook-apps] smart quotes are acting stupid in Firefox & IE; why?

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Stayton
Hi, I looked into this some more. Seeing strange characters in DocBook XHTML output usually means the browser thinks the file has iso-8859-1 encoding instead of the UTF-8 encoding that is the DocBook XHTML default. It is the case that browsers should read either the encoding attribute of the

RE: [docbook-apps] Olinks in PDF missing valid destination?

2013-10-28 Thread Wood Nick
Hi Bob, List, I don't know if this a new thread or a continuation of what has been discussed below. I set up some olinks on a set of very simple documents for testing purposes (only transformed to pdf at this stage) and they were working fine. However, I have now incorporated olinks into som

Re: [docbook-apps] smart quotes are acting stupid in Firefox & IE; why?

2013-10-28 Thread Stefan Knorr
Hi Robert, On Fr, 2013-10-25 at 22:23 -0500, Robert Nagle wrote: > As you know, MS Word automatically changes quotes to smart quotes and so my > docbook source in Oxygen editor includes smart quotes and not normal > quotes. I think the best way to generate quotes in DocBook is using the element

[docbook-apps] Should xmllint successfully validate docbook 5 containing XIncludes?

2013-10-28 Thread Jon Leech
I'm trying to validate some documents generated by the db4-upgrade.xsl from existing (validating) db4 documents. Validating the resulting db5 results in mysterious errors that don't seem to correspond to actual problems. Eventually I figured out that if I inlined content that had originally be