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Re: Adding an attribute to links
On Monday 20 January 2003 19:24, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:56:06AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > I'd like to add a title attribute to link/ulink/olink that is used
> > as title attribute in the generated <a href="..." title="...">.
> > I've found the templates that handle links in xref.xsl. Extending
> > these templates in a copy & change fashion looks easy, but I'd
> > prefer a modular way of hooking into them. From my experience I
> > don't see such a way, but maybe someone else knows better.
>
> I don't see an easy way of hooking in.
Thanks. I think I'll do without the title, then.
"title" wouldn't have been a good name for the ulink attribute anyway.
What I had in mind was adding user-visible (as opposed to
machine-visible) meta info to a link. Something ranging from a funny
quip to "Home page of the author".
Michael
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