Re: [O] Reference cannot be resolved without publishing

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello Nicolas,

On 2015-12-12 10:01, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Alan Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I have the following files I want to export to html:
>>
>> common.org:
>> #+TITLE: Unison Binaries
>> #+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil
>> #+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
>>
>> * sidebar
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :CUSTOM_ID: sidebar
>>   :HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS: container-sidebar
>>   :END:
>>
>> - [[file:index.org::#OSX][Mac OS X]]
>>
>> index.org (extract)
>> #+INCLUDE: "common.org"
>>
>> * body
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :CUSTOM_ID: mainbody
>>   :HTML_CONTAINER_CLASS: container-mainbody
>>   :END:
>>
>> ** Unison Binaries
>>
>> *** Mac OS X
>>     :PROPERTIES:
>>     :CUSTOM_ID: OSX
>>     :END:
>>
>> When I try to export index.org to index.html, I get:
>>
>> Reference "#OSX" in file "index.org" cannot be resolved without
>> publishing
>>
>> What does it mean? And why can't the reference be resolved? Should I not
>> use CUSTOM_ID for relative links?
>
> Usually, Org cannot resolve an external link if it doesn't know about
> the external file, i.e., if it doesn't publish it.

I see.

> HTML export is a special case because resolving custom-id links is
> trivial (the back-end doesn't alter them). So I guess we can use that to
> make it work in this special case, even though it will fail in other
> back-ends.
>
> I pushed the change in master. Let me know if it works for you.

It almost works: the generated html uses two '#' instead of one:

<li><a href="index.html##OSX">Mac OS X</a></li>

Should I remove the '#' from the link?

Thanks a lot,

Alan

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