[docbook-css] Callouts

[David Holroyd]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:19:11PM +0000, martin.gautier@myrnham.co.uk wrote:
> Hmm.
> 
> Tricky one.
> 
> Any plans afoot? I'd hazzard a guess that CSS is going to have trouble. I 
> don't grok Gecko/XUL so can't say whether it could cope...

Yeah, you're right, CSS isn't going to be able to cope with callouts.

XBL is almost able to generate the crossreferences for these kind of
callouts, but the general unavailability of getElementById() for
Mozilla's XML DOM makes it tricky.

[ Maybe I could have a go at substituting an (almost) equivalent XPath
function.  Hmmm... ]

I also seem to recall some other kind of DB callout system using x/y
coordinates, though maybe that was a caffeine-induced hallucination?


Oh, FYI, I've just started trying to improve thee XBL for image handling.
I'm in the process of replacing the naive binding on <imageobject> with
something more complex bound to the parent <[inline]mediaobject>.


dave

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