On 23.03.23 20:08, Brar Piening wrote:
> I've also attached the (unchanged) make_html_ids_discoverable patch for
> convenience so this email now contains two patches for postgresql
> (ending with .postgresql.patch) and one patch for pgweb (ending with
> .pgweb.patch).
Here is my view on this:
First of all, it works very nicely and is very useful. Very welcome.
The XSLT implementation looks sound to me. It would be a touch better
if it had some comments about which parts of the templates were copied
from upstream stylesheets and which were changed. There are examples of
such commenting in the existing customization layer. Also, avoid
introducing whitespace differences during said copying.
However, I wonder if this is the right way to approach this. I don't
think we should put these link markers directly into the HTML. It feels
like this is the wrong layer. For example, if you have CSS turned off,
then all these # marks show up by default.
It seems to me that the correct way to do this is to hook in some
JavaScript that does this transformation directly on the DOM. Then we
don't need to carry this presentation detail in the HTML. Moreover, it
would avoid tight coupling between the website and the documentation
sources. You can produce the exact same DOM, that part seems okay, just
do it elsewhere. Was this approach considered? I didn't see it in the
thread.