Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Using an image on the titlepage

["Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:13:41PM +0200, Mauritz Jeanson wrote:

> > Can anyone explain this?
> 
> Yes, the block must have some text content. One way to get around
> that is to put a zero-width space (for example) in your
> customization layer:
> 
> <xsl:template name="book.titlepage.recto">
>   <fo:block>&#8203;  <!-- makes block "non-empty" -->
>      <fo:external-graphic src="url(...)"/>
>    </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> This is needed because the template with name="book.titlepage" in
> titlepage.templates.xsl contains the following test:
> 
> <xsl:if test="normalize-space($recto.content) != ''">
>   <fo:block><xsl:copy-of select="$recto.content"/></fo:block>
> </xsl:if>
> 
> Without any non-whitespace text nodes, normalize-space() returns an
> empty string.

Thanks, Mauritz.  Is that a bug or a feature, Bob?  Why can't I just
have an image on the title page?


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