Re: Named Destinations in PDF from DocBook files

On 6/2/22 22:58, Eric Isaacson wrote:
> I’m trying to find information on how to add some sort of ID to 
> my DocBook files that will result in a named destination in the 
> generated PDF.
> 
> We are using XMLmind 10 to create the DocBook files and PDFs.
> 

Difficult to help you as I don't know what is a "named destination in a 
PDF file".

Let's just say that it's a good practice to add meaningful "xml:id" 
attributes ("id" attributes in DocBook v4 documents) to your chapters, 
sections, figures, tables.

IMPORTANT: the "xml:id" must be added to the element itself and NOT to 
its title:

Good:
----
<chapter xml:id="conclusion">
   <title>Conclusion</title>
----

Bad:
----
<chapter>
   <title xml:id="conclusion">Conclusion</title>
----

If you want to mark locations in your DocBook document which are not 
formal elements like chapters, sections, figures, tables, etc, then 
please use the <anchor> element. This <anchor> element has a mandatory 
"xml:id" attribute. See https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/anchor.html

When converting DocBook to PDF, these DocBook IDs are first converted to 
XSL-FO "id" attributes (XSL-FO is a standard intermediate format), then 
the XSL-FO processor which will generate the PDF (e.g. FOP) is supposed 
to make good use of these XSL-FO IDs.

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