Thomas Emmel wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
Ross Gardler wrote:
I'm not sure why the meta tags are left in the xdoc format. Perhaps a
debugging remnant. I suspect it would be safe to remove the relevant
XSL
that produces these comments.
Please don't remove the meta-elements in these transformations as they
are needed for transporting a number of different pieces of info about
the source document from source to final html.
These are commented out meta-element in the XDoc, they are not the
actual meta-elements. Please see the above comment in context for an
example.
Are you saying that the commented meta-elements are used anywhere? I
am not aware of such a thing, and if they are used I do not understand
why they are commented out.
Ross
I use this meta-elements for additional chapter-counters, so that I have
in my html-pages e.g. 2.5.x.x.x... and in the pdf too.
Therefore I add
<meta content="2.5" name="chapter">
to my .html
In site-to-xhtml.xsl I process this information e.g. for every section.
I know that is a dirty hack and it produces e.g. this
<h1>
<meta>
<meta>
<meta>
<meta>
<meta>
<meta>2.5.1. </meta>a new section ...</h1>
Which looks realy ugly :-( in code but the result in the browser is
looking good and that counts for our projects...
However this meta is not valid vor the DTD and hence - I think - it is
commented out. Although it gets processed (bug?).
Give me a better work-around than using meta and I will be happy (And
give me the time to implement that :-)))
Meta-Data support in Forrest is sketchy, at best. There is some support,
and quite a few discussions about the best way to improve that support.
I'd suggest starting with a mail archive search, particularly in the dev
lists. For starters you may like to look at [1], [2] (same thread, so
you should really read the whole thing really).
If this thread or your current thinking leads you to think that you can
help us create a better and/or more complete solution please join us
over on the dev list.
Ross
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=110324061019177&w=2
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=110357528502172&w=2
