Re: [docbook] TOC with parents

[Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com>]

[moving to docbook-apps]

What you are describing sounds like the webhelp output. Did you
consider using that?

Webhelp produces HTML pages with the full TOC on each page. I have
customized the HTML and CSS significantly to match different web sites
and branding.

Peter

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> wrote:
> I have chunked html output from docbook 5, and want to output the entire TOC on every page, including all parents of the chapter currently being rendered.
>
> I found one approach here: http://markmail.org/message/xpmrfboyu3tr5ehn
>
> But it is 11 years old, and not quite right, so I modified it a little...
>
>     <!-- show all sections in TOC, including parents of the current section -->
>     <xsl:template match="chapter" mode="toc">
>         <xsl:param name="toc-context" select="."/>
>
>         <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::book">
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="book" mode="toc">
>                 <xsl:with-param name="toc-context" select="."/>
>             </xsl:apply-templates>
>         </xsl:for-each>
>     </xsl:template>
>
> but it doesn't work. I'm a bit out of my depth with this level of XSLT hackery. Any help would be welcome...
>
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> Ari
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