Re: [docbook-apps] docbook: xref to generic elements

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Adding some gentext templates is the first step for making an xref to a new
element.  But you also need to create an XSL template with mode="xref-to"
for each element.  That template would handle the particulars of how the
xref text would be generated for that element.  It can call the gentext
template, apply-templates in 'object.xref.markup' mode, count list items, or
anything you want.  See fo/xref.xsl for examples.  You will see that the
default match="*" mode="xref-to" is the template generating that error
message.

In your case, you may want to output the classname content and then
apply-templates in mode="object.xref.markup" to generate the page reference
using your gentext templates from the xref context.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernd Kuemmerlen" <bkuemmer@gmx.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:07 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] docbook: xref to generic elements


> Hello there,
>
> our docbook users often make xrefs to a lot of elements which do not
> have gentext templates and therefore, using the docbook-xsl stylsheets,
>   in the html or pdf output they have links of the form ??? (which at
> least point to the correct location in the html output).
>
> I tried to add gentext templates for some of the used elements like
> described in <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomXrefs.html> in my
> customization layer:
>
> <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/>
> <l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0";>
>    <l:l10n language="en">
>      <l:context name="xref">
>        <l:template name="classname" text="(p. %p)"/>
>        <l:template name="constant" text="(p. %p)"/>
>      </l:context>
>    </l:l10n>
> </l:i18n>
>
> However when transforming using xsltproc, I get messages like
>
> Don't know what gentext to create for xref to: "classname",
> ("TypeInfosBase")
>
> I guess I am doing something wrong here... Can anyone help?
>
> I also tried to set xreflabels on individual xrefs, but still only "???"
> is shown.
>
> Is there a more generic solution to create xref text for elements which
> otherwise don't have a valid label? It would be for example great to
> have (page XY) for pdf output and (chapter XY) for html output
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers on how to do this
> Bernd
> -- 
> "I'm a doctor, I am supposed to tell people where it hurts (so I can
> fix it and make money)."
> -- Mark S.
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