You are referring to the empty <p> warnings reported by tidy?
Those are the result of a tricky piece of code that Norm wrote to unwrap
HTML content to make it more valid. As you probably know, putting a pre
inside p is not valid HTML. But that is what you would get if you just
processed a programlisting inside a para. So the code Norm wrote finds
such blocks inside p, terminates the p, outputs the block, and starts a new
p. In the case of no content after the programlisting, you end up with an
empty p element.
If you want to see what's going on, look at the template with match="para"
in html/block.xsl. It calls "paragraph", which calls "unwrap.p" if
$html.cleanup is not zero. The templates to do the work are all in
html/html-rtf.xsl. This is a nontrivial process, as you can see.
I suppose the templates could test a generated p that has only text to see
if it has only whitespace, and then not output such empty p elements. Let
me know if you find the right place to do that and I'll check it in. 8^)
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai" <>
To: "Bob Stayton" <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Suggested Writing Style
> -On [20060816 17:43], Bob Stayton () wrote:
>>I'm not clear what the stylesheet issue might be here?
>
> See my first email Bob, I think that ought to be descriptive enough?
> Let me know if it isn't.
>
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