broken stylesheet - inserting anchors into output(?)

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pdxwordsmith
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broken stylesheet - inserting anchors into output(?)

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Halp!

I took a chainsaw (internal text editor) to my stylesheet and wacked out a bunch of stuff yesterday. Now, when I build, weird things are happening to my output:
stylesheet-weirdness.jpg
It appears that the font color changes wherever there is a class change (keyword or p class), but Flare appears to be adding <a name="aanchor"> tags that are not in the XML source.

Weirdly, I've tried using a stylesheet backup from before the wacking and I'm still experiencing the problem so I'm wondering if something else is going on.

Also, I have a span class called Keyword which changes the font color.

Here's the XML snippet:

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    <body>
        <h2 class="H2">Silverlight <MadCap:keyword term="Silverlight Isolated Storage configuration" />Application Storage <MadCap:concept term="All" />configuration</h2>
        <p class="Para_0">Silverlight Application Storage must be enabled for <MadCap:variable name="iTV-Manager.Product_itvManager" />. If <MadCap:variable name="iTV-Manager.Product_itvManager" /> displays a message indicating that it is not enabled, follow these steps:</p>
Here's the output HTML:

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        <h2 class="H2">Silverlight <a name="kanchor1">Application Storage </a><a name="aanchor2"><madcap:concept term="All">configuration</madcap:concept></a></h2>
<a name="aanchor2">        </a><p class="Para_0"><a name="aanchor2">Silverlight Application Storage must be enabled for <span class="iTV-ManagerProduct_itvManager">iTV Manager</span>. If <span class="iTV-ManagerProduct_itvManager">iTV Manager</span> displays a message indicating that it is not enabled, follow these steps:</a></p>
Any ideas?
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NorthEast
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Re: broken stylesheet - inserting anchors into output(?)

Post by NorthEast »

That's pretty strange; I doubt it's your stylesheet though.

In your output, the <a ...kanchor ..> tags are inserted as the bookmarks for index entries, and the <a ...aanchor ..> tags are inserted for the concept term markers.

However, there shouldn't be any text contained inside these <a ...> tags in the output; which is why the text that is inside them is blue (as presumably you've set the a style as blue for your hyperlinks).

For example, in your source where you have...

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Silverlight <MadCap:keyword term="Silverlight Isolated Storage configuration" />Application Storage
I'd expect to see a bookmark (<a ...kanchor.. ) in the output for the index entry...

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Silverlight <a name="kanchor1"></a>Application Storage
But in your output, the closing </a> tag seems to be in the wrong place...

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Silverlight <a name="kanchor1">Application Storage </a>

Anyway, there's clearly something going wrong when Flare is generating the output, the <a ...> tags seem misplaced.
Also, is there anything set in your project that could be inserting additional bookmark tags too; e.g. do you have an auto-index file set up?

Might be one for MadCap support.
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