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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:42:27 -0700
From:	Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook
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On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> 
> > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > Heh, this is the first time I accessed the FAQ after the switch, and
> > > the direct question links don't work. :-( I think the presence of the
> > > id= attribute and the name= attribute *in different <a> tags* confuses
> > > the older Netscape that I use.  I just checked, and combining them
> > > into one tag fixes the problem.  Is there a way to convince DocBook to
> > > do that?
> >
> > What version of Netscape, so I can attempt to reproduce?
> 
> 4.72 (don't laugh, I still use it occasionally).
> 
> > Also, do both the one- and multi-file versions fail for you?
> 
> Both.
> 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "id=" maybe it's stuff like this:
> >
> > <a name="faq.what.where"></a><a name="id4678694"></a>
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what I meant (for some reason, I misread the second
> name= attribute as an id= attribute, sorry).  FWIW, changing the above to
> 
> <a name="faq.what.where" id="id4678694"></a>
> 
> makes the named link work in my version of Netscape, while not breaking it
> for either IE or FireFox.
> 
> Switching the anchors around also makes the named links work (at the
> expense of the id ones, but who uses those?):
> 
> <a name="id4678694"></a><a name="faq.what.where"></a>
> 
> As I understand it, DocBook is an XSLT stylesheet, right?  Do you know
> off-hand how to convince it to do either of the above two changes?  If
> not, I'll take a look and try to submit a patch...

I think we might want to use this:

<http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/generate.id.attributes.html>

Unfortunately it doesn't work. :(
Feel free to take a look.

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