Hello Ray, I think the effect of surrounding the chapter title in an "i" element in the olink target file is intended, not a side effect as you can see in the template which generates it: <xsl:template match="chapter|appendix" mode="insert.title.markup"> <xsl:param name="purpose"/> <xsl:param name="xrefstyle"/> <xsl:param name="title"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$purpose = 'xref'"> <i> <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/> </i> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> You can remove the <i> and </i> tags in a customization layer of the main DocBook stytlesheet which duplicates this template and modifies it by removing these tags. Apply the customization layer instead of the main DocBook stylesheet to remove the tags prior to transformations and perform the transformations at the same time (if collect.xref.targets is set to 'yes'). We will consider publishing this customization on the <oXygen/> website. Best regards, Sorin http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Miller, Ray (Centech) wrote:

docbook-rng-5.0b8 xsl-1.71.0 saxon-6.5.5 oxygen-7.2.0 (eclipse-3.2 plugin)

When generating an olink target data file (targetdb.xml), tags <i> and </i> surround each chapter’s element text. Would like a macro to strip the aforementioned tags from targetdb.xml subsequent to pre-processing but prior to transformations, executing automatically each time a transformation is run on the project AND the stringparm collect.xref.targets is set to ‘yes’ or ‘only’. Currently performing this activity utilizing find/replace (ugh).

I believe a site-published solution (under Documentation/Articles) addressing the removal of unwanted tags and characters (along with the macro) from a DocBook target.db document will be of interest to other oXygen/DocBook users.

Advise and comments please.

Ray