#1266 docbook-xsl-ns XHTML 1.1does not properly end variablelist

[Christopher Culver]

When the XSL stylesheet docbook-xsl-ns/xhtml-1_1/docbook.xsl is applied to the attached minimal example file crculver-example.xml, the last paragraph is erroneously set in bold. Examining the XHTML source reveals that this is because the <strong> tag continues to be added to XHTML output even after processing of the DocBook <variablelist> into an XHTML <table> is complete.

The version of docbook-xsl-ns used is 1.76.0~RC1+dfsg-1.

[Christopher Culver]

Minimal example file for erroneous processing of <variablelist> in docbook-xsl-ns/xhtml-1_1/docbook.xsll</variablelist>

[Robert Stayton]

Well, I don't think the DocBook stylesheet is doing anything wrong here. That variablelist in the example.xml file has an empty title element. That element generates an empty <strong> element in the output, as it should. It is the empty strong element that seems to confuse HTML browsers. Adding a letter to strong, or removing strong seems to fix the errant bolding. Since the strong element is allowed to be empty in HTML, I think that indicates a bug in the browser. The workaround is to remove the empty title from the variablelist. I don't think that is something that the DocBook stylesheet should try to do.

[Robert Stayton]

I'm closing this bug as it appears to not be a problem with DocBook XSL.