Re: [docbook-apps] Convert a relative file link to a URL in docbook

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

What a great idea.  That looks to be very useful for a variety of purposes.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:33 AM
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Convert a relative file link to a URL in docbook

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, at 21:13, Natalie Kershaw wrote:
> > <xsl:template match="d:link[@role='relative']">
> >   <xsl:copy>
> >     <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">
> >       <xsl:value-of select="concat('http://prefix/', @xlink:href)"/>
> >     </xsl:attribute>
> >   </xsl:copy>
> >   <xsl:apply-templates select="d:link"/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > This seems to half-work in that it does prepend the prefix to the link
> > href, but then it does not convert the link element into FO.
>
> Bob already described, why it doesn't work. However you can quite easily
> use this approach. Use profiling stylesheets (ones starting with
> profile-, eg. profile-docbook.xsl) and put your template into profile
> mode. By default profile mode copies source document and you can change
> this behaviour to do some changes in your source document, for example:
>
> <xsl:template match="d:link[@role='relative']" mode="profile">
>  <xsl:copy>
>   <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>    <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">
>      <xsl:value-of select="concat('http://prefix/', @xlink:href)"/>
>    </xsl:attribute>
>    <xsl:apply-templates mode="profile"/>
>  </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> That should do the trick.
>
> Jirka
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Jirka Kosek      e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz      http://xmlguru.cz
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Professional XML consulting and training services
>  DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org