- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 16:46:12 +0100
- To: <xsl-editors@w3.org>
I am concerned about the term "first area resulting from this item" in 'The "ref-id" property is used to locate the item being referenced. The page-number of the page containing the first area resulting from this item is then acquired as an unstyled text string and the character-level properties are applied to that string in the same manner as for fo:character-string.' This seems to be dependent on what is being referenced. Say I assign an ID to the title of a chapter, etc. Say I translate this object so that it becomes an entry in the contents list and an entry in the chapter body. When I do a citation ref I want it to point to the object in the body, not the one in the contents list. Now my question is "What is 'this item' in this context. Is it a) the ID of the source document object b) an ID manually generated during transformation of the source tree to the fo tree c) an automatically assigned ID that is given to the first transformation that takes place or d) the id assigned to a page-number fo that is created automatically when a page number is instantiated as part of the page number an object in the flow associated with the body area?" Thoughts would be welcomed. I know what you are trying to achieve. Its ID management I am worried about. You cannot point to the ID of a specific page-number fo as this can only be defined automagically. When would the page-number be assigned to the source/result tree object? What happens if I want to reference something in one of the side-bars? Needs a bit more explanation I feel. Martin Bryan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Bryan, 29 Oldbury Orchard, Churchdown, Glos GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 E-mail: mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com For more information about The SGML Centre contact http://www.sgml.u-net.com For more information about the European Commission's Open Information Interchange (OII) initiative contact http://www.echo.lu/oii/en/oiistand.html For more information about the European XML/EDI Pilot Project contact http://www.cenorm.be/isss/workshop/ec/xmledi/isss-xml.html
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