RE: [docbook-apps] dynamic chunk.section.depth

[Tim Arnold <Tim.Arnold@sas.com>]

Hi Doug,
Thanks for the link. I looked at the code, but I'm still pretty new to xsl, so for now I think the modifications I need are beyond my reach. 

thanks,
--Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug [mailto:doug.duboulay@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 9:08 PM
> To: Tim Arnold
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] dynamic chunk.section.depth
> 
> Hi Tim,
> I messed about with something related a couple of years ago.
> What I implemented was a negative number on the chunk.section.depth to say
> chunk to within that "section height" of the node tree leaves.
> I think there was a little bit of freedom because you could
> add the odd "simplesect" leaf, which were terminal non-chunking nodes
> anyway.
> Of course you need to pay very close attention to your document structure
> if you tried this - I was transforming a highly structured ontology, so
> it worked adequately for me.
> 
> I think calculating the number of section children was a bit intensive
> though,
> specially for TOC generation. The logic was embedded in the tabular-toc
> contrib module, somewhere ...
> http://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docbook/trunk/contrib/xsl/tabular-
> toc/
> 
> cheers
> doug
> 
> 
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Tim Arnold wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I suppose it is impossible to set the chunk.section.depth dynamically, but
> > maybe some of you will have an idea about how to solve my problem.
> >
> > For the most part we want our documents chunked to a depth of 2. Some
> > sections however are very mathematically dense and/or long, which can lead
> > to some very heavy HTML pages. For these dense sections we'd like to chunk
> > to a depth of 3.
> >
> > My first guess is that I will customize the chunk template which
> determines
> > what is or is not a chunk, maybe adding a parameter to that template to
> > tell the section depth, but I'm not sure how to vary that within the
> > document.
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> > thanks,
> > --Tim Arnold
> >
> >
> >
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