<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="5.0" xml:id="ulink.hyphenate"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>ulink.hyphenate</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">string</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>ulink.hyphenate</refname> <refpurpose>Allow URLs to be automatically hyphenated</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="ulink.hyphenate.frag"> <xsl:param name="ulink.hyphenate"></xsl:param> </src:fragment> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> <para>If not empty, the specified character (or more generally, content) is added to URLs after every character included in the string in the <parameter>ulink.hyphenate.chars</parameter> parameter (default is <quote>/</quote>). If the character in this parameter is a Unicode soft hyphen (0x00AD) or Unicode zero-width space (0x200B), some FO processors will be able to reasonably hyphenate long URLs.</para> <para>As of 28 Jan 2002, discretionary hyphens are more widely and correctly supported than zero-width spaces for this purpose.</para> </refsection> </refentry>