From cec091620d21a3a0162d9c1d161d3e227cdcea38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:58:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Turn off generating the title attribute for block and
 hierarchical elements. Should only be used for inline elements, usually using
 the alt element. Also used for links to show the target title.

---
 xsl/html/html.xsl | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xsl/html/html.xsl b/xsl/html/html.xsl
index 6b285dac0..39ad63733 100644
--- a/xsl/html/html.xsl
+++ b/xsl/html/html.xsl
@@ -52,7 +52,16 @@
   <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="html.title.attribute"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
+<xsl:template match="acronym|abbrev" mode="html.title.attribute">
+  <xsl:if test="alt">
+    <xsl:attribute name="title">
+      <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(alt)"/>
+    </xsl:attribute>
+  </xsl:if>
+</xsl:template>
+
 <!-- Generate a title attribute for the context node -->
+<!-- This may be the target of an xref -->
 <xsl:template match="*" mode="html.title.attribute">
   <xsl:variable name="is.title">
     <xsl:call-template name="gentext.template.exists">
@@ -321,7 +330,6 @@
   <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="class.attribute">
     <xsl:with-param name="class" select="$class"/>
   </xsl:apply-templates>
-  <xsl:call-template name="generate.html.title"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <!-- Apply common attributes not including class -->
@@ -332,7 +340,6 @@
 <xsl:template match="*" mode="locale.html.attributes">
   <xsl:call-template name="generate.html.lang"/>
   <xsl:call-template name="dir"/>
-  <xsl:call-template name="generate.html.title"/>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <!-- Pass through any lang attributes -->
-- 
2.40.0