[dbdoclet] Re: Case in xml:id values

Hello Lillian,

I will change the generation of the ids (-id java), so they will
preserve the case in the next release.

Regards,
Michael

Am Dienstag, den 06.01.2009, 17:51 -0800 schrieb Lillian Sullam:
> When dbdoclet creates an xml:id value for cross-references, it appears
> to lower-case class names and method names, for example, the method
> "digitalQuery" generates an xml:id of "method...digitalquery". Java is
> case-sensitive, so method "digitalQuery" is different from the method
> "DigitalQuery". Should the xml:id values preserve case? I notice that
> dbdoclet goes to the trouble of including the parameter signature in
> the xml:id values, which is very nice. It would be nice to preserve
> the class and method case as well.
> 
> I would like the xml:id values to preserve Java case, so we can
> perform global transformations on the DocBook output that rely on
> matching all occurrences of specific method names, even if those names
> occur inside an "xml:id". I am using dbdoclet and javadoc to document
> a Java interface and a corresponding C++ interface using DocBook.
> There are some global changes between the interfaces, for example,
> Java 'boolean' becomes C++ 'bool'. These changes are easy to make. I
> also have to change some method names, and I want to change both the
> method names and the corresponding xml:id values, so the Java dbdoclet
> DocBook output and the transformed C++ DocBook files can be
> incorporated into one DocBook document.
> 
> 
>

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