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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] suppressing everything but the content of <body>in xhtml output


Hendrik,

Not stupid at all :) I'm fairly new to XSL, and the thought hadn't
occurred to me.

Thanks,
Brett

On 6/15/2007 5:48 PM, Hendrik Bunke wrote:
> This may be stupid, but why don't you just do another
> transformation with one simple XSL-File (something like
> <xsl:copy-of select="/html/body/node()" />?
> 
> hendrik bunke
> 
> --On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:01, Brett Leber wrote:
> 
>> I'm a little bit disappointed that there weren't any more responses to this
>> question (besides Dick's very useful suggestion).
>>
>> Do most people publishing DocBook in (X)HTML use the output as the entire page
>> page on the server? I would think the opposite, that most people would
>> *include* the docbook output in the templating system of a site.
>>
>> Tidy is one way forward. But can't we do a little better by outputting only
>> the useful content (the content of the body element, most likely) for
>> inclusion in a page?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brett
>>
>> On 6/12/2007 3:24 PM, Dick Hamilton wrote:
>>> Brett,
>>>
>>> I needed to do the same thing, but I cheated and used tidy
>>> with the following configuration file:
>>>
>>> show-body-only: yes
>>> output-xhtml: yes
>>>
>>> You can also merge <divs> and clean up other artifacts
>>> pretty easily.
>>>
>>> I'm sure there's a way to do this in the transform, but if
>>> you need a quick fix, tidy works pretty well.  If you're not
>>> familiar with tidy, check out tidy.sourceforge.net.
>>>
>>> Dick Hamilton
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Brett Leber [mailto:bleber+@cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
>>>> 1:05 PM
>>>> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>>>> Subject: [docbook-apps] suppressing everything but the content of <body>
>>>> in xhtml output
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to output only the content of the xhtml document's <body> (ie, no
>>>> <html>, <head>, or <body> tags). I found an old post that seemed to be
>>>> what I needed, but the XSL customization didn't work for me (granted, it's
>>>> 5 years old):
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Removing <html>,<head> & <body>
>>>>      * From: Gisbert Amm <gia@webde-ag.de>
>>>>      * To: Fredrik Svensson <fred@ludd.luth.se>
>>>>      * Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:21:26 +0200
>>>>
>>>>   >    Currently the HTML head stuff is output by
>>>>   >    this template in html/docbook.xsl:
>>>>   >
>>>>   >    <xsl:template match="*" mode="process.root">
>>>>   >
>>>>   >    If you only want to modify this for articles,
>>>>   >    you could add a template in mode "process.root"
>>>>   >    to your html customization layer:
>>>>
>>>>   >    <xsl:template match="article" mode="process.root">
>>>>   >     <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
>>>>   >    </xsl:template>
>>>>
>>>>   >    Then it will not output the <head><body> stuff, but
>>>>   >    it will process everything in the document
>>>>   >    as html.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using the DocBook 5 stylesheets, and xhtml/docbook.xsl. Any hints?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Brett
>>>>
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