RE: [docbook] customizing pagesetup.xsl

["Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Brandt 
> 
> I would like to customize the first titlepage by
> adding a
> background image to it. The definition of the
> first titlepage is located in fo/pagesetup.xsl
> 
> http://docbook.xml-doc.org/snapshots/xsl/fo/pagesetup.xsl
> 
> The problem with pagesetup.xsl is that when I only
> need to customize, the titlepage-first 
> master page, I need to copy the whole set of master
> pages to my customization layer, and that's a huge
> amount of redundant code. Otherwise, compilation
> fails. Could you please explain how to customize only
> the titlepage-first  master page within the set?


This seems like a use case for the user.pagemasters and
select.user.pagemaster templates.
See http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageDesign.html#DeclarePageMasters.

Mauritz