Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Simplifying the XSL transform commands

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:26:53AM +0100, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Dennis Grace <dgrace@us.ibm.com> was heard to say:
> 
> | 2. Is it possible to include an instruction in the XSL customization layer
> | that will direct the output to use the principal tag id as the name (so
> | that, for instance, a DocBook XML article with the id attribute set to
> | 'fred'
> |
> | <article id="fred">
> |
> | would generate output file fred.htm)?
> 
> Try setting use.id.as.filename to 1.

That parameter is only used by the chunking stylesheet.
The non-chunking stylesheet (is there a better name
for that concept?) has no concept of an output filename,
but instead writes to standard output, which
the XSL processor redirects with its -output option.
Using the chunk stylesheet just to get the filename
probably will have side effects (like generating other
chunks).

How about a simple shell or perl script controlling
xsltproc?

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