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<h1>Problems with the DSSSL style-sheets</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-docbook@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-docbook@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
<li><em>Subject</em>: Problems with the DSSSL style-sheets</li>
<li><em>From</em>: &quot;Eric S. Raymond&quot; &lt;<A HREF="mailto:esr@snark.thyrsus.com">esr@snark.thyrsus.com</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:40:25 -0400</li>
<li><em>Cc</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com">ndw@nwalsh.com</A></li>
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I've just finished converting all of my active HOWTOs to DocBook.
While doing this, I have run across one problem with DocBook itself
and two problems with the stylesheets.
1. Missing &lt;newsgroup&gt; tag.
The problem with the DocBook markup itself is that I cannot find any
way to semantically tag a USENET newsgroup name. This comes up
especially frequently in connection with LDP HOWTOs, which often
cite newsgroups.
We're missing a &lt;newsgroup&gt; element, which would be desirable for the
same reason as &lt;email&gt;. Consider
&lt;newsgroup&gt;comp.os.linux.announce&lt;/newsgroup&gt;
In HTML output, this wants to become
&lt;a href=&quot;<A HREF="news:comp.os.linux.announce&quot">news:comp.os.linux.announce&quot</A>;&gt;comp.os.linux.announce&lt;/a&gt;
But in print we probably want the equivalent of
&lt;emphasis&gt;comp.os.linux.announce&lt;/emphasis&gt;
without news URL.
2. Stylesheet problems in HTML output.
Using the docbook-style-dsssl-1.54-4 package, I note that in HTML output
A: Contents and title are badly ordered. That is, the table of
contents is set before the document title and front matter.
B: No break between front matter and first body section.
C: Contents of the author tag is rendered as a single run-on-line with
no line breaks or spacing.
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<li><strong><a name="00246" href="msg00246.html">Re: Problems with the DSSSL style-sheets</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> Poet/Joshua Drake &lt;jd@linuxports.com&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="00248" href="msg00248.html">Re: Problems with the DSSSL style-sheets</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> Jorge Godoy &lt;godoy@conectiva.com&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="00249" href="msg00249.html">Re: Problems with the DSSSL style-sheets</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> Norman Walsh &lt;ndw@nwalsh.com&gt;</li></ul></li>
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