Re: [docbook] pdf image source path no longer working?

[Claus <claus.klingberg@gmail.com>]

Alas, I didn't even know about the ns-stylesheets. Now that I downloaded
them pointed my customization-layer to it, everything works like it used
to. All images showing up again, problem resolved.

Thanks Michael + Bob!

Claus


On 8/31/07, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Indeed, those messages are very helpful.  They indicate you are processing
> a docbook5 document with the non-namespaced stylesheets.  When processing a
> DocBook5 document with the non-namespaced stylesheets, it first processes
> the content into a node-set while stripping the namespace from the document
> elements.  Then it processes the node-set with the non-namespaced
> templates, which can now match.  In creating the node-set, however, the
> xml:base of the original document is lost, leading to problems with
> resolving relative paths.
>
> I would suggest you try processing your DocBook5 documents with the
> docbook-xsl-ns namespaced stylesheets.  One of the motivations for creating
> those stylesheets was to avoid the node-set step and the result problems
> with paths.  Your existing customization layer should still work because it
> doesn't reference any element names that would require a namespace prefix.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Claus" <claus.klingberg@gmail.com>
> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf image source path no longer working?
>
>
> One more point I discovered just now (including debug-output):
>
> I receive the following warnings when compiling using xsltproc with
> v1.73.1 (no warnings with version < 1.72.x):
>
> % xsltproc c:/work/docbook/my_docbook-fo-driver.xsl
> UC-importing-web-style.xml
>
> [...]
> Note: namesp. cut : stripped namespace before processing           UC:
> Importieren von Daten über Webinterface
> Warn: no @xml:base: cannot add @xml:base to node-set root element  UC:
> Importieren von Daten über Webinterface
> Warn: no @xml:base: relative paths may not work                    UC:
> Importieren von Daten über Webinterface
> Note: namesp. cut : processing stripped document                   UC:
> Importieren von Daten über Webinterface
> [...]
>
> Perhaps this gives some hint of what might go wrong?
>
> % xsltproc --version
> Using libxml 20628, libxslt 10120 and libexslt 813
> xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20628, libxslt 10120 and libexslt 813
> libxslt 10120 was compiled against libxml 20628
> libexslt 813 was compiled against libxml 20628
>
> % head UC-importing-web-style.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";
> xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="5.0" xml:lang="de"
> class="specification">
>   <title>UC: Importieren von Daten über Webinterface</title>
>   <subtitle>UC-importing-web-style.html</subtitle>
>   <info>
>     <date>27.08.2007</date>
> [...]
>
> %cat c:/work/docbook/my_docbook-fo-driver.xsl
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                 version="1.0">
>   <xsl:import href="docbook-xsl-1.73.1/fo/docbook.xsl"/>
>   <xsl:param name="draft.watermark.image" select="''"/>
>   <xsl:param name="xep.extensions" select="1"/>
>
>   <xsl:param name="paper.type" select="'A4'"/>
>   <xsl:param name="preferred.mediaobject.role" select="fo"/>
>   <xsl:param name="body.font.master">12</xsl:param>
>
>   <xsl:param name="show.revisionflag">1</xsl:param>
>   <xsl:param name="ulink.show" select="1"></xsl:param>
>
>   <xsl:param name="page.margin.inner">1in</xsl:param>
>   <xsl:param name="l10n.gentext.default.language"
> select="'de'"></xsl:param>
>
>   <xsl:param name="img.src.path">../</xsl:param>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Claus
>
>
>
> On 8/29/07, Michael(tm) Smith <smith@sideshowbarker.net> wrote:
> > Claus <claus.klingberg@gmail.com>, 2007-08-27 16:23 +0200:
> >
> > > While upgrading the docbook stylesheets from v1.72.0 to 1.73.1 I
> > > noticed that my custom fo-parameter "img.src.path" stopped working.
> > >
> > > My xsl-fo parameter-stylesheet has a line like this:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >  <xsl:param name="img.src.path">../</xsl:param>
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > This used to work as expected (find pdf-images one directory level
> > > upwards), but since upgrading to 1.73.1, images in PDFs are now
> > > missing.
> >
> > I've now run some test cases with both the 1.72.0 and 1.73.1
> > stylesheets, using "../" and various other values for the
> > img.src.path param, but I'm not able to reproduce the problem you
> > describe. In every case, I get identical output, with the images
> > appearing as expected.
> >
> > But it could well be that my test cases are not modeling what you
> > have. So, as I mentioned in my earlier message, if you could
> > send/upload a copy of your DocBook source or some other file that
> > with which you're able to reproduce this problem, along with a
> > copy of you customization layer, I can also check with that and
> > see what I get.
> >
> > Also note that you can get DocBook help in real time on the
> > #docbook channel on irc.freenode.net
> >
> >   --Mike
> >
> > --