RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Preview Documents [solved]

[Stephan Wiesner <stephan@stephan-wiesner.de>]

Hi Bob, thanks for your quick and helpfull reply.
apply-import did the trick.



Stephan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bobs@caldera.com [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] 
> Sent: Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002 09:09
> To: Stephan Wiesner; 'docbook apps list'
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Generating Preview Documents
> 
> 

> I'm not completely clear on what you mean by a preview 
> document.  It seems you want a complete document except all 
> chapters but one do not appear?  If that is the case, you 
> might try using <xsl:apply-imports/> in your customization 
> instead of <xsl:apply-templates/>.
> 
> When you do apply-templates, it is only being applied to
> the children of chapter.  But you need the chapter element 
> template to start the page-sequence.  By using apply-imports 
> instead, you tell the processor to use the original chapter 
> template.  Since it is conditional on the selected id, only 
> that chapter should be output.
> 
> If you just want to generate a chapter with its own TOC,
> you can do it with a couple of parameters and the
> stock fo stylesheet:
> 
> rootid="chap_preview"
> generate.toc="chapter toc"
> 
> The first parameter selects only that element for output.
> The second parameter causes the chapter to have a TOC
> (which it normally does not have in print).
> 
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