Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes

XSL-FO Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on hyperlinks, table of contents, and indexes. Topics include introduction of 'basic-link' formatting object; 'internal-destination' and 'external-destination' attributes; building table of contents with hyperlinks; using index-key attributes and building back-of-book indexes.

What Is "basic-link" Formatting Object?

"basic-link" with "internal-destination" Attribute

Clickable Table of Content

Building Back-of-Book Indexes

Takeaways:

"basic-link" formatting objects allows you build hyperlinks for output devices that supports interactive browsing.
"external-destination" attribute is used to specify an URI address referring to an external resource.
"internal-destination" attribute is used to specify a reference ID of a formatting object inside the same output.
"internal-destination" attributes can be used to make table of contents with hy is used to hyperlinks.
index-key="..." attributes can be used to associate index keys to formatting objects.
"index-page-citation-list" and "index-key-reference" formatting objects can be used to build back-of-book indexes with hyperlinks.