RE: [docbook-apps] Updating title page customizations for Docbook V5.0

[<Jere.Kapyaho@nokia.com>]

Hi Bob,

thanks for the information -- I downloaded the snapshot of docbook5-xsl, and the title page templates are kicking in now, as expected, with no major problems based on quick testing. Sorry to have neglected to check the bug database before posting.

I originally chose to use "docbook" instead of "d" as my namespace prefix, but it seems that "d" is hard-wired into template/titlepage.xsl. Is "d" the ultimate prefix everyone is using for DocBook V5.0, or would it be worth it to make this configurable? It's not a big deal in practice as I can just declare both namespace prefixes with the same URI (seems to work), but it is kind of messy to have two.

Also, in the generated XSL file I see references to "d:bookinfo", but since that has been deprecated in favor of the new generic "info" element, I think those are redundant. I don't mention "bookinfo" in my custom title page spec, so I don't know where they come from, if not from template/titlepage.xsl. Curious but harmless.

Best regards
Jere

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] 
>Sent: 9. maaliskuuta 2007 19:22
>To: Kapyaho Jere (Nokia-TP-MSW/Tampere); 
>docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Updating title page customizations 
>for Docbook V5.0
>
>Hi,
>I think the problem of the template/titlepage.xsl was fixed in 
>SVN, so you should try the snapshot version of docbook5-xsl.
>
>Bob Stayton
>Sagehill Enterprises
>DocBook Consulting
>bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Jere.Kapyaho@nokia.com>
>To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 2:49 AM
>Subject: [docbook-apps] Updating title page customizations for 
>Docbook V5.0
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have been updating our internal specification tool chain to 
>use DocBook 
>V5.0. We have a hefty DocBook XSL stylesheet customization 
>layer, but I was 
>making good progress, at least after I realized that I needed 
>to add the 
>DocBook namespace prefix to all my customization layer templates... :)
>
>Anyway, the title page customization seems to cause some 
>trouble. My title 
>page customizations are not coming through; in fact I don't 
>get a title 
>page at all. I suspect this is because the templates in my 
>generated custom 
>title page stylesheet are not matching the DocBook elements correctly, 
>probably because of namespace issues.
>
>I'm a bit lost as to what I should do with the title page spec 
>XML file, so 
>that processing it with template/titlepage.xsl would produce 
>the right kind 
>of templates. I'm currently using the DocBook V5.0 XSL 
>stylesheets v1.72.0, 
>so I'm dealing with namespaces already, but the 
>template/titlepage.xsl is 
>exactly the same in both the original and DocBook V5.0 versions of the 
>DocBook XSL stylesheets (v1.72.0), which makes me wonder.
>
>Is there a way to do this already now, or is there an update 
>pending for 
>the template/titlepage.xsl in the DocBook V5.0 stylesheets? I think 
>titlepage.xsl would need to be aware of the DocBook namespace 
>prefix used 
>in the customization layer to generate the correct templates 
>so that they 
>match, perhaps using a stylesheet parameter.
>
>I tried this in my customtitlepagespec.xml file:
>
><t:titlepage t:element="docbook:book" t:wrapper="fo:block">
>  <t:titlepage-content t:side="recto">
>etc.
>
>but this copies the "docbook:" namespace prefix to the name of the 
>template, among other places, and also complains about the 
>namespace prefix 
>not being declared (even when it is, in the t:templates element).
>
>Any ideas about what to do or where to look?
>
>--Jere
>
>-- 
>Jere Käpyaho (jere.kapyaho@nokia.com)
>Specialist, Developer Platform Standardization @
>Technology Platforms @
>Nokia Corporation
>
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