[Fwd: Re: [docbook-apps] othercredit + contrib works in HTML, notin FO]

[David Bridgeland <bridgeland@yahoo.com>]

Bob's reply was the day after the auto-unsubscribe fiasco. Now that 
everyone is back, does anyone (e.g. Norm?) understand why the 
fo/titlepage.xsl template does this? Is this a bug or a feature?

Dave

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [docbook-apps] othercredit + contrib works in HTML, not in FO
Date: 	Wed, 26 Mar 2003 21:59:00 -0800
From: 	Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>
To: 	David Bridgeland <bridgeland@yahoo.com>
CC: 	docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
References: 	<3E82694F.1010000@yahoo.com>



On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:00:31PM -0500, David Bridgeland wrote:
> I have an authorgroup with an author and an othercredit:
> 
>     <book status="draft">
>     <bookinfo>
>     <title>Something</title>
>     <authorgroup>
>     <author>
>     <firstname>Big</firstname>
>     <surname>Cheese</surname>
>     <othername role="mi">M</othername>
>     </author>
>     <othercredit>
>     <firstname>Little</firstname>
>     <surname>Guy</surname>
>     <contrib>with contributions from</contrib>
>     </othercredit>
>     </authorgroup>
> 
> Translating to HTML, I get what I want:
> 
> 
>           Big M Cheese
> 
>     with contributions from:Little Guy
> 
> But translated to FO, I end up with
> 
>           by Big M Cheese and Little Guy
> 
> The relevant parts of the both titlepage.xsl look very similar with some 
> minor differences, and it looks like the FO version wants to do the same 
> thing as the HTML version. But it doesn't. Is there a bug in the FO XSL?
> 
> Versions: I am using docbook-xsl-1.60.1 to create FO and HTML, and 
> fop-0.20-5rc2 to create PDF. Although the latter is not relevant as  
> there is no sign of a "with contributions from" in the fo itself.

The template you are running into is in fo/titlepage.xsl
that starts with:

<xsl:template match="bookinfo/authorgroup" mode="titlepage.mode" priority="2">

which calls template 'person.name.list', which just processes
the names found within authorgroup.  

This template is more specific than the match="authorgroup" so
it takes precedence.  I'm not sure why both are in there.
There are some additional comments in the file that indicate
some purpose, but it wasn't clear to me.

Perhaps Norm can clarify the purpose of these templates.

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