Re: [docbook-apps] Preprocess ?

[Stefan Kost <ensonic@hora-obscura.de>]

hi,

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> On 04/07/2010 05:24 AM, Jacques Foucry wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I would like to make a kind of "preprocess" to my docbook's files but
>> I don't know How to do that. Let me explain.
>>
>> Inside my sources file there is a lot of
>> <imageobject conformance="custom_size">
>>     <imagedata fileref="picture.tiff"/>
>> </imageobject>
>> <imageobject conformance="USLetters">
>>     <imagedata fileref="picture.png"/>
>> </imageobject>
>>
>> The value of profile.conformance is defined inside my custom stylesheet.
>>
>> The problem is how can I generate a docbook file (not a fop one) with
>> only the right imageobject ?
>>    
>
> I believe that's exactly what profiling allows you to do.
> Specifically, with two-phase processing:
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AlternateText.html#ProfileFilter
>
>     Stefan
>
This is interesting. Do you think one could use it to create a variant
of the xsl? This would be useful if you need to apply the very same xsl
to dozens of xml sources.

Stefan