[ docbook-Feature Requests-1446951 ] html: processing refentry leads to missing AUTHORS section

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Feature Requests item #1446951, was opened at 2006-03-10 13:13
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Category: XSL
Group: output: HTML
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 3
Submitted By: Daniel Leidert (dleidert)
>Assigned to: Michael Smith (xmldoc)
Summary: html: processing refentry leads to missing AUTHORS section

Initial Comment:
If you process a manpage (refentry) source with the
HTML stylesheets, the resulting page misses the AUTHORS
section. To fix this, code similar to the following
should do:

<xsl:template match="refentry">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="refentryinfo//author">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="refentryinfo"
mode="authorsect"/>
    </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="refentryinfo" mode="authorsect">
  <div class="refsect1">
  <xsl:call-template name="language.attribute"/>
  <xsl:call-template name="anchor">
    <xsl:with-param name="conditional" select="0"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
  <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<h2>AUTHOR]]></xsl:text>
  <xsl:if test="count(.//author)+count(.//othercredit)>1">
    <xsl:text>S</xsl:text>
  </xsl:if>
  ... test for author, othercredit and editor elements
      and apply these as part of one paragraph for
      authors, one for contributors, one for editors
  </div>
</xsl:template>

What do you think about this? The code is quite similar
to the manpage-ones.

Regards, Daniel

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>Comment By: Michael Smith (xmldoc)
Date: 2006-04-13 20:06

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This is a low priority because users generally do not put
author information on Refentry per-Refentry but instead
but instead group Refenty instances together and put
them into Reference or Article or something, and then
put author data in the *info for that Reference or
Article. When the set is output in HTML, that information
is available in the place where users would normally
expect to find it (on the titlepage of the set).

But I agree this is a nice-to-have. It is just lower
priority relative to some of the other open feature
requests.


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