Persistent Filenames in Web Output

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Setting up Persistent Filenames is a two step process that has an important prerequisite: You must identify those elements that indicate the start of a Web chunk (individual page).

The easiest way is to make sure that those elements, which will signal the start of a new Web chunk, have an @id attribute with a valid value and then use that value as the resulting filename. It makes it both easy to track down and correct in the source file.

Once in place, it’s a matter of setting up a property set and making sure that property set is assigned to those same element rules.

For example, here’s how to set up a propertyset called “a_persistent_filename” that we use in the Arbortext Monster Garage books to create good web output and epub formats:

And here’s all the rules it got set on:

 

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