From: David Cramer <david@thingbag.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:18:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added a check to confirm that a footnoteref's linkend points to a footnote. Styleshee... 
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d5a6882492644694468c714b219434b8b020dc3;p=docbook-dsssl

Added a check to confirm that a footnoteref's linkend points to a footnote. Stylesheets stop processing if not and provide a useful error message.
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diff --git a/xsl/html/footnote.xsl b/xsl/html/footnote.xsl
index 9f941b917..0c03df5e1 100644
--- a/xsl/html/footnote.xsl
+++ b/xsl/html/footnote.xsl
@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@
   <xsl:variable name="targets" select="key('id',@linkend)"/>
   <xsl:variable name="footnote" select="$targets[1]"/>
 
+  <xsl:if test="not(local-name($footnote) = 'footnote')">
+   <xsl:message terminate="yes">
+ERROR: A footnoteref element has a linkend that points to an element that is not a footnote. 
+Typically this happens when an id attribute is accidentally applied to the child of a footnote element. 
+target element: <xsl:value-of select="local-name($footnote)"/>
+linkend/id: <xsl:value-of select="@linkend"/>
+   </xsl:message>
+  </xsl:if>
+
   <xsl:variable name="target.href">
     <xsl:call-template name="href.target">
       <xsl:with-param name="object" select="$footnote"/>