Re: [docbook-apps] Re: page-specific footer for chunked output

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

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From: "Sam Steingold" <sds@gnu.org>
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Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: page-specific footer for chunked output


> > * Bob Stayton <obof@fntruvyy.arg> [2005-02-03 00:10:25 -0800]:
> >
> > Your "bookinfo/subtitle" path is taken relative to the current context
> > node, which is the current chunk being processed.
> > That should probably be "//bookinfo/subtitle".
>
> why not "/book/bookinfo/subtitle"?

Indeed, why not.  That works too, and is more precise.

> also, this strips out all the formating I have in the subtitle.
> e.g., "<subtitle>foo <emphasis>bar</emphasis> baz</subtitle>"
> is printed by
>
>  <xsl:if test="//bookinfo"><div class="bookinfo">
>    <hr width="100%"/><table width="100%">
>     <th><td align="left"><xsl:value-of select="//bookinfo/subtitle"/></td>
>      <td align="right"><xsl:value-of select="//bookinfo/date"/></td></th>
>  </table></div></xsl:if>
>
> as "<td>foo bar baz</td>" and not "<td>foo <em>bar</em> baz</td>"
> why?

That's because <xsl:value-of> will return the string value of a node, which
means just the text.  You want to apply-templates instead, so the <emphasis>
is processed by its template too. Just replace:
<xsl:value-of select="/book/bookinfo/subtitle"/>

<xsl:apply-templates select="/book/bookinfo/subtitle"/>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net