RE: [docbook-apps] Using <h1> for chapter titles in HTML output

["Peter Desjardins" <pdesjardins@supplyscape.com>]

Here's the customization I made to cause chapter titles to use the <h1>
element in HTML output:

It seems to work.  I'm posting it so that it's available in the
archives.  If what I have done here does not make sense or is poor form,
would you let me know?

Thanks.

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<!-- Cause chapter elements to be published with h1 HTML tags -->

<xsl:template name="component.title">
  <xsl:param name="node" select="."/>

  <xsl:variable name="level">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::section">
        <xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor::section)+1"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::chapter">0</xsl:when> <!-- Added this
line - pdesj -->
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::sect5">6</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::sect4">5</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::sect3">4</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::sect2">3</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="ancestor::sect1">2</xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>1</xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <!-- Let's handle the case where a component (bibliography, for
example)
       occurs inside a section; will we need parameters for this? -->

  <xsl:element name="h{$level+1}">
    <xsl:attribute name="class">title</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:call-template name="anchor">
      <xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="conditional" select="0"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$node" mode="object.title.markup">
      <xsl:with-param name="allow-anchors" select="1"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
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Peter Desjardins
SupplyScape Corporation
+1 781 503 7441
http://www.supplyscape.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 13:00
> To: Peter Desjardins; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Using <h1> for chapter titles in 
> HTML output
> 
> Hi Peter,
> The template named 'component.title' in html/component.xsl 
> handles generating the <h2> element.  It computes a $level 
> variable and then adds 1 to get the h heading.  You'll need 
> to customize that to set $level to zero for chapters.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Desjardins" <pdesjardins@supplyscape.com>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:11 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Using <h1> for chapter titles in HTML output
> 
> 
> I am trying to customize HTML output so that MS Word will 
> open the HTML
> files in a way that produces consistent paragraph styles.  In
> particular, I want chapter titles in the DocBook content to 
> become <h1>
> elements so that they eventually map to the default "Heading 1"
> paragraph style in MS Word.  By default, the chapter title is 
> output in
> an <h2> element.
> 
> My searching the docbook-apps archives, HTML parameter documentation,
> and experimenting with XSL customizations has not turned up an answer
> for me.
> 
> Can anyone point me to a configuration that will cause 
> chapter titles to
> appear in the HTML <h1> element?
> 
> In case it matters, the DocBook content uses <section> elements rather
> than <sect1>, <sect2>, and so on.  Also, I don't mind that the <book>
> title is already <h1>.  Having both the book and chapter 
> titles use <h1>
> is not a problem for me.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Peter Desjardins
> 
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