docbook: Alternative to tag in Docbook
Subject:
Re: Alternative to tag in Docbook
From:
"John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date:
5 Aug 2002 02:37:47 -0000
Message-Id: <200208050237.g752bj607275@clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com>
At (time_t)1028510270 odc wrote:
> Is there any alternative for Para that doesn't have a newline /
> carriagereturn ?
>
> I'm trying to use it in a listitem, but I don't want the listitems to be
> spaced apart.
Your complaint isn't with the <para> tag per se, but rather with
the stylesheets and the fact that web browsers treat <li><p> as
two blocks instead of one.
I ran a simple test using Norm Walsh's XSL stylesheets, and the
relevant HTML came out thusly:
<html><body>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul type="disc">
<li><p>Foo</p></li>
<li><p>Foo2</p></li>
</ul>
</div></body></html>
By removing the <p> tags, you can achieve a closer nesting in
Mozilla, at least.
So, there would seem to be at least a few options:
1) Customize the XSL/DSSSL stylesheets to not insert the <p>.
I think something along the lines of this would work for XSL:
<xsl:template match="listitem/para">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
2) Break validation, and remove the <para> tags. Undesirable but
straightforward.
3) Use CSS to define a <p> nested in a <li> as an inline instead
of block:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
li p {
display: inline;
}
</style>
</head>
If you already have a CSS stylesheet, the last option would
clearly be the simplest, and in general feels like the best
solution to me.
(On-topic plug: I knew little about CSS until this weekend, but
picked up "Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web" by Lie
& Bos yesterday, and read straight through it. Excellent,
excellent book.)
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John R. Daily
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