[oXygen-user] Outline view again

[Wendell Piez]

Dear Bob,

On 1/20/2012 11:22 PM, Robert Leif wrote:
> Wendell et al.
> I have seen RDF and presumably RDFa tables of contents (ToCs). There are two
> extremes in the types of ToCs. 1) a manifest which just lists the component
> files and their locations 2) A collection of hyperlinks, roles, and
> relationships. I have been working on the latter and can send out a preprint
> of a paper that I am completing. Most of the information and schemas can be
> found at www.cytometryml.org. My own work is on measurements of cells. A
> major problem-weakness in what I have done is that although, I have written
> XML schemas, I cannot interface them with neither html5 nor xhtml5. html5
> does not appear to be simple to extend.
> Can your ToC include hyperlinks? Not the formatting of the text but
> providing the capacity with a browser to move to a new web page?

If you're meaning within oXygen's Author mode specifically and you want 
linking semantics in the display (as formatted with CSS), you should 
look at oXygen 13's CSS extensions in this area.

But by saying "in the browser", you seem to be speaking more broadly; 
about that I'm not sure what I'd say other than while CSS by itself 
doesn't provide linking semantics, generating ToCs such as you describe 
is a very normal thing to do with XSLT. This approach (which indeed I'd 
describe as a classical approach to online publishing) would have you 
not integrating your XML-based application format into HTML or XHTML, 
but rather converting it into HTML or XHTML for display. Current 
mainstream browsers do support XSLT 1.0 transformations for this purpose.

(But this isn't directly on topic for this list is it? Maybe you want 
XSL-List at mulberrytech.com.)

Regards,
Wendell

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