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

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

I think it is a bug.  In fact, I can't imagine why that test is there at
all.  If someone needs to have a blank titlepage, why not let them?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
To: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
Cc: "'Ben Branders'" <ben.branders@skynet.be>;
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Using an image on the titlepage

> 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?