Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: One CSS stylesheet only in the root directory

["Fischer, Oliver" <plexus@snafu.de>]

Thanks, but why is functionality duplicated?

Oliver

Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:57:09PM +0100, Fischer, Oliver wrote:
> 
>>Hello list,
>>
>>while starting the spread all my files in several directories and 
>>generating them with the same structure I realized that I have to 
>>copy the CSS stylesheet to every output directory.
>>
>>Since I don't like it to copy static content I hacked for my 
>>website the head.xsl
>>
>>    <meta name="generator" content="Website XSL Stylesheet 
>>V{$VERSION}"/>
>>     <xsl:if test="$html.stylesheet != ''">
>>       <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
>>         <xsl:attribute name="href">
>>           <xsl:value-of select="$thisrelpath"/>
>>           <xsl:value-of select="$html.stylesheet"/>
>>         </xsl:attribute>
>>
>>         <xsl:if test="$html.stylesheet.type != ''">
>>	  <xsl:attribute name="type">
>>             <xsl:value-of select="$html.stylesheet.type"/>
>>	  </xsl:attribute>
>>	</xsl:if>
>>       </link>
>>     </xsl:if>
>>
>>The result is, that I need only one instance and there is no need 
>>to copy it to ever dir.
>>
>>I would be really happy if this feature could be integrated in 
>>the distribution of website and docbook. I hope, I am not the 
>>only one, who would like it... ;-)
> 
> 
> Actually, a feature like this is already a part of the website
> stylesheet.  If you specify your css stylesheet using
> a <style> element in layout.xml instead of with an 
> 'html.stylesheet' parameter, then you each generated HTML
> file references the same stylesheet file using relative
> paths.  See the example layout.xml file included with
> the distribution.  
> 
> 
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