docbook: Alternative to tag in Docbook
Subject:
Re: Alternative to tag in Docbook
From:
odc ####@####.####
Date:
5 Aug 2002 20:34:45 -0000
Message-Id: <3D4EE214.F8652536@myrealbox.com>
"John R. Daily" wrote:
> 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.)
>
> --
> John R. Daily
> <email><mailbox>john</mailbox><domain>geekhavoc.com</domain></email>
Hmm, where would I put a style sheet declaration ? The document I'm working on
is an LDP-style guide.
Or is that something I have to do post-parsing ?
