Larry,

I've thinking about this, and I believe that we can do much better in terms of output, with simpler code. Remember that I was suggesting that each XHTML page have four ID divs: header, navigation, content and footer.

To me, what should go in the navigation div is a nested list, and from that list we could create a either a left, right or horizontal menu bar. We could also create a next/previous link in there, but the point is that we could create a entire DocBook navigation rather easily, without much code.

For example, code would output like the example below (please note that we could do this for as many levels of depth that we wanted.)

<div id="navigation"> <ul> <li>Chapter Name <ul> <li>Section Name</li> <li>Section Name</li> </li> </ul> </div>

Anyway, to me this makes more sense: it's totally doable (to use a real technical term!), plus you can generate CSS drop down lists from that code. For examples of how you can style lists, check this site: http://css.maxdesign.com.a u/index.htm

Thanks, Rene