Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: customizing stylesheet with language specific text

[Marko Petersen <lg002237@rzserv2.fhnon.de>]

Hi,

thanks a lot, I am using XSL and it is really quite easy when knowing
how to do this. This is exactly what I needed :-)

Greetings,

Marko

At 11:05 12.12.2002 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:40:25PM +0100, Marko Petersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have to add some application specific things to the stylesheet and
> > I would like to use the internationalization that is used in docbook. I
> > need some language specific files containing the text to embed,
> > because I don't want to edit the existing ones so that an upgrade to a
> > new style is possible without modifications.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to include this files and how to reference the
> > language specific text? I took a look at the different stylesheets but I
> > don't understand how these call the language specific text, for example
> > for index if no title is set.
>
>If you are using the XSL stylesheets, you can add
>localization entries to your customization layer without
>touching the distribution files.  See:
>
>   http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomGentext
>
>Entries like this define general text for each language file:
>
>    <l:gentext key="abstract" text="Abstract"/>
>
>The key attribute is the identifier, and the text attribute
>is the printable text.  To call the text from an XSL
>template, you use the gentext template with the key
>parameter specified:
>
>  <xsl:call-template name="gentext">
>    <xsl:with-param name="key" select="'abstract'"/>
>  </xsl:call-template>
>
>This will return the value of the text attribute,
>which is 'Abstract' in this example.
>
>--
>
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