View XML or Docbook files
Nick Coleman
display 'correctly' in Opera? At the moment, it displays as one long
sentence, without line breaks or spacing.
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Nick
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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
<spambucketPoke...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> How do I get xml files (mainly docbook ones in /usr/share/doc) to
> display 'correctly' in Opera? At the moment, it displays as one long
> sentence, without line breaks or spacing.
Plain XML without styling information has no 'correct' display, apart from
rendering all the content inline. If the styling is not defined, the other
option is to simply show the XML tree structure, like Firefox and MSIE do.
If the vocabulary is known, you could apply a user stylesheet to style the
contents. I found such a stylesheet with a little Googling [1], and
adapted it a little to make it suitable as a user stylesheet.
* Download the file docbook.css from
<URL:http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/css/docbook.css>
* Edit the Local CSS files. Under Linux, this is a separate ini file IIRC.
Add an antry that points to the file 'docbook.css' that you just stored in
a suitable place, and use an appropriate Title value.
* After a restart, you should now have an extra option in the User styles
dropdown.
[1] http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/docbook-css/
You might ask 'why doesn't Opera do this by default', but that would only
be workable for file formats that can easily be identified and have
well-defined rendering expectations.
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Nick Coleman
> Plain XML without styling information has no 'correct' display, apart
> from rendering all the content inline. If the styling is not defined,
> the other option is to simply show the XML tree structure, like
> Firefox and MSIE do.
>
> If the vocabulary is known, you could apply a user stylesheet to style
> the contents. I found such a stylesheet with a little Googling [1],
> and adapted it a little to make it suitable as a user stylesheet.
>
> * Download the file docbook.css from
> <URL:http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/css/docbook.css>
> * Edit the Local CSS files. Under Linux, this is a separate ini file
> IIRC. Add an antry that points to the file 'docbook.css' that you just
> stored in a suitable place, and use an appropriate Title value.
> * After a restart, you should now have an extra option in the User
> styles dropdown.
>
> [1] http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/docbook-css/
>
> You might ask 'why doesn't Opera do this by default', but that would
> only be workable for file formats that can easily be identified and
> have well-defined rendering expectations.
>
Thank you very much -- that works great. I did google for it, but I
guess you are a better googler than me ;).