XSL Customization: Generate full ToC in a separated file

[Hugo Cisneiros <hugo@devin.com.br>]

Hi people,

I'm writing a free book using DocBook XML for content and XSL 
Stylesheets for presentation. I admit that I'm not expoert and 
customizing XSL Stylesheets, so I'm looking for some help.

I created a custom .xsl file with all my presentation needs. But I'm 
running into problems with a feature that I think it's useful: generate 
a full Table Of Contents (including chapters, sections with all depths, 
and maybe table/element lists) in a separate file while transforming 
into a chunked html version.

I know the XSL parameter "chunk.tocs.and.lots", but it withdraws the ToC 
from the index and put into a section like. My idea is to have the 
index's ToC (with presentation controlled by parameters 
toc.section.depth, toc.max.depth, etc) *and* a separate file with the 
complete ToC (all depths and items).

Why?

When someone is reading the book in the HTML chunked format, he will see 
  the ToC and will decide where to go. When he does not know exactly 
what to read, he will read the main chapters to see what he is 
interested. For example:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/

And as reader access the chapter, he'll be presented with the other 
sections, and so on.

When the reader knows *exactly* what he wants to find out, he can search 
in the "full ToC" to see if a section covers what he needs, using for 
example the Find tool in a browser. The same past example, now with full 
index:

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html-ng/

Now I need to generate the second example as a "chapter" or element 
within my book. I know this is possible, as I searched and found out one 
case:

http://mobileinternetguide.org/html/toc01.html
(See the last link above the bottom navigation bar)

When you click the "full table of contents", you'll see *all* the 
content. Easy to search. I think this approach is very useful, and as I 
look for someway to do this, I really appreciate help here :)

Thanks!

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