Re: [docbook-apps] Problem: Not both textobjects & imageobjects inxsl/html output

[Mark Johnson <mrj@debian.org>]

Oy. My bad. I'm embarassed. Should've RTFM:)

Thanks,
Mark

Chris Moller wrote:
> That's the way it's supposed to work.  From The Book:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The primary purpose of the MediaObject 
> <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/mediaobject.html> is to provide a 
> wrapper around a set of alternative presentations of the same information.
> 
> If possible, the processing system should use the content of the first 
> object within the MediaObject 
> <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/mediaobject.html>. If the first object 
> cannot be used, the remaining objects should be considered in the order 
> that they occur. A processor should use the first object that it can, 
> although it is free to choose any of the remaining objects if the 
> primary one cannot be used.
> 
> Under no circumstances should more than one object in a MediaObject 
> <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/mediaobject.html> be used or presented 
> at the same time.
> 
> For example, a MediaObject 
> <http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/mediaobject.html> might contain a video, 
> a high resolution image, a low resolution image, a long text 
> description, and a short text description. In a “high end” online 
> system, the video is used. For print publishing, the high resolution 
> image is used. For other online systems, either the high or low 
> resolution image is used, possibly including the short text description 
> as the online alternative. In a text-only environment, either the long 
> or short text descriptions are used.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When generating html output, the xsl stylesheets will only render the 
>> first <*object> within a <mediaobject>.
>>
>> For example,
>>
>>     <mediaobject>
>>       <textobject>
>>          <para>some text</para>
>>       </textobject>
>>
>>       <imageobject>
>>     <imagedata fileref="graphic.png"/>
>>       </imageobject>
>>     </mediaobject>
>>
>> only outputs the <textobject> content. When I reverse the order:
>>
>>     <mediaobject>
>>       <imageobject>
>>     <imagedata fileref="graphic.png"/>
>>       </imageobject>
>>
>>       <textobject>
>>          <para>some text</para>
>>       </textobject>
>>     </mediaobject>
>>
>> only the graphic gets rendered.
>>
>> Is this the intended behavior? (Smells like a bug.)
>>
>> However, I *can* output the combos imageobject/caption or 
>> textobject/caption, so that I can place text above or below the 
>> graphic. But this approach/hack only allows me to use one block of 
>> text within the mediaobject, when I really want to have the option of 
>> rendering a text object both before & after a imageobject.
>>
>> Any insights?
>>
>> Slight digression below
>> -----------------------
>>
>> FWIW, I found a simple hack to (globally) move the <caption> so it 
>> appears before the imageobject by simply reversing the order of the 
>> statements
>>
>>     <xsl:apply-templates select="$object"/>
>>     <xsl:apply-templates select="caption"/>
>>
>> in the file html/graphics.xsl.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
> 
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> 
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>     /President/
>     Moller Software Development Services, LLC 
> 
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