Re: DocBook XSL V1.62.0 released

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * In message <87d6elhbb6.fsf@nwalsh.com>
> * On the subject of "DocBook XSL V1.62.0 released"
> * Sent on Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:33:17 -0400
> * Honorable Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
>
> I published DocBook XSL V1.62.0 earlier today.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935&release_id=181350
> 
> This is very much a test release, there are a lot of changes in there.
> Please report your successes and failures. If nothing comes up in a
> week or so, I'll publish a 1.62.1 release.

I forgot to mention the biggest problem that persists from the previous
version, namely that I cannot pass all comments from XML to nroff.

I use

<!-- here we just convert comments into < ! - - ... - - >
  for further processing with sed(1) (see Makefile) -->
<xsl:template match="comment()">
 <xsl:text>&#60;!--</xsl:text> <!-- #\< ! - - -->
 <xsl:variable name="content">
  <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">
   <xsl:with-param name="string"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="target" select="'&#10;'"/>
   <xsl:with-param name="replacement" select="'--&#62;&#10;&#60;!--'"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
 </xsl:variable>
 <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($content)"/>
 <xsl:text>--&#62;</xsl:text> <!-- - - #\> -->
</xsl:template>

<!-- the following tries to preserve the comments
  it does not work because para|simpara|remark in list mode
  calls normalize-space() and removes the whitespace around comments
  <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.docbook.apps/6461> -->
<!--
<xsl:template match="comment()">
 <xsl:text>&#10;.&#92;&#34;</xsl:text> <!- - #\Newline . \ " - ->
 <xsl:variable name="content">
  <xsl:call-template name="string.subst">
   <xsl:with-param name="string"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="target" select="'&#10;'"/>
   <xsl:with-param name="replacement" select="'&#10;.&#92;&#34;'"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
 </xsl:variable>
 <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($content)"/>
 <xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::comment())">
  <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text></xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
-->

some comments are kept and some are lost.

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