Re: [docbook] span like thing ?

[David Cramer <david@thingbag.net>]

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On 05/10/2011 09:21 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> I sincerely apologize for this series of trivial questions, but they are certainly not trivial to me...
> 
> I have a <literal> block in which I have a number of <markup> spans.
> 
> When I convert that to html I want some <markup> to be attributed some class and others to be attributed some other class, because in the end I want to use the classes to color them differently with a style sheet.
> 
> Problem is that all the <markup> I have ends up transformed as a <span class="markup">, even if I put some attributes like [role="inline"] or [role="block"], which I eventually would love to see become the classes in the rendered html...
> 
> So, is there a way to have:
> 
> <markup role="block"> to be converted into an HTML <span class="block"> ?
> 
> I have no preference for the DocBook tag, <markup> just ends up describing the contents nicely, but if there is something else that allows me to do what I want I'll be happy to change of tag.

Hi Jean-Christophe,

Have a look at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/UsingCSS.html

Especially where he talks about emphasis.propagates.style and
phrase.propagates.style.

See also:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.76.1/doc/html/emphasis.propagates.style.html

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.76.1/doc/html/phrase.propagates.style.html

David
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