Re: [docbook-apps] just so i know i'm on the right track with website ...

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:59:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   just to let me verify that i have the right idea about how to
> construct a web site with the Website DTD, i started with the sample
> site that comes with the tarball, poked around, and started
> experimenting.
> 
>   i noticed that there was one parameter that could be modified in 
> the param.xsl stylesheet to change the contents of what is called the
> "home.navhead.upperright", which you can set to what you want displayed
> in the upper right.
> 
>   initially, it was set to 
> 
> <xsl:template name="home.navhead.upperright">
>  <xsl:text>Upper right</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
>   fair enough.  i wanted to change that to display the "Created
> with Website" graphic, so i just crammed the appropriate HTML in
> there to read:
> 
> <xsl:template name="home.navhead.upperright">
>  <img src="website-1.png" alt="Website" align="right"></img>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
>   basically brute force, and it worked nicely.  for those
> of you website experts, was that the standard way to do it?
> i don't see any other more elegant way, just toss in the
> HTML i want as the final result.
> 
>   am i on the right track?

Yes, that is valid XSL for what you want.

> rday
> 
> p.s.  yes, i suppose i could do the above the official way with
> 
> <xsl:template ...>
>  <xsl:element name="img">
>   <xsl:attribute name="src">website-1.png</xsl:attribute>
> .. and so on.
> 
> but i'm just playing.

You can do it that way as well.  The xsl:attribute
element is particularly useful when you need to 
do some processing to select a value of an attribute.
If you have a single value as in your example,
then the simple solution works too.

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