SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System, 3rd Edition

Figure A3.2 Linking to Another File

The following features are important at the starting point (the anchor) of the link:

• The <A> and </A> tags surround the text that the browser highlights.

• The HREF attribute points to the link's target. The text that precedes the pound sign

(#) identifies the file that contains the target.

ODS provides features that enable you to customize the text that precedes the pound sign

and the text that follows the pound sign. For information about how to do this, see the

discussions of file-specification, ANCHOR=, BASE=, PATH=, and GPATH= in the

“ODS HTML Statement ” on page 304 as well as “How ODS Constructs Links and

References” on page 1091.

HTML implements references in much the same way as it implements links. The main

difference is that a link points to a particular location within a file and that a reference

points to the file itself. HTML uses the SRC attribute to identify a file to reference. The

value of the SRC attribute is constructed the same way that the value of the HREF

attribute is constructed except that there is no pound sign and no text following it.

How ODS Constructs Links and References

Several options in the ODS HTML statement affect how ODS constructs the links and

references that point from the frame to the table of contents, table of pages, and body file

and from the table of contents or table of pages to the body file. Links are made as HREF

attributes on <A> (anchor) tags inside the HTML files. Each HREF attribute points to the

NAME attribute on another <A> tag. The HREF must identify both the file that contains

HTML Links and References Produced by the HTML Destination 1091