RE: [docbook-apps] Adding attributes/parameters to the "<para>" template?

[Sheldon Plankton <sheldonplankton@yahoo.com>]

Hi David

 

Thanks that works.   But after thinking about it I could always just

put the text I want to appear at the start of each paragraph by putting

the text there like so ...

 

<para>+++ blah blah blah</para>

 

... so I will probably not use that version of the para template.

But the strict_para is useful in situations where it is important

that paragraphs start with a particular string.  And I probably

didn't make it clear that this template would work like this ...

 

<strict_para pm="XXX --">blah blah blah</strict_para>

<strict_para pm="lmnop: ">blah blah blah</strict_para>

 

... this would result in html ...

 

<p>XXX --blah blah blah</p>
<p>lmnop: blah blah blah</p>

 

... while ...

 

<strict_para>blah blah blah</strict_para>

 

... or ...

 

<strict_para pm="">blah blah blah</strict_para>

 

... would result in an error.

 

Thanks!

David White <davidw@kencook.com> wrote:

Something like this?

 

<xsl:template match="para[@pm='+++']">

<xsl:param name="pm" select="self::*[@pm][1]/@pm"/>

<fo:inline>

<xsl:value-of select="$pm"/></xsl:apply-templates>

</fo:inline>

</xsl:template>

 

If <para> has no pm attribute this template would be ignored.

<xsl:template match="strict_para[@pm] != 'xxx' ">

</xsl:template>

The above would catch any use of <strict_para> that didn't have an attribute pm which equals 'xxx'.

A good place to read up on XSLT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT

Hope that helps,

David White

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From: Sheldon Plankton [mailto:sheldonplankton@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:09 PM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps] Adding attributes/parameters to the "<para>" template?

Hi,

I am having a hard time trying add a "para template" in my "customization" layer.

I would want to add an parameter to the para template.  This parameter would

contain a string that would be prepended to the paragraph.

So if I had in my xml file this ...

<para pm="+++ ">Hi there </para>

... output would be in html something like ...

<p>+++ Hi there</p>

Also how would I make the template use a default value if the attribute/parameter

was left out?  Also how could I make another template say ... strict_para ... that

would cause an error if the parameter was left out?

I guess I should get a book on xsl ... right?  or is xstl?

Thanks

Plankton

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