Re: [docbook-apps] How to specify an attribute-set?

[Trevor Harmon <trevor@vocaro.com>]

On Dec 29, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Thomas Schraitle wrote:

> I am not very familiar with Ant but as fas as I understood it, you  
> need a
> customization layer (see [1,2]).  Simply said, you create a XSLT
> stylesheet, import the original DocBook stylesheet, move your  
> parameters
> from your Ant task to the customization layer and add your attribute
> sets.
>
> Delete all <param> in your Ant task and use your customized stylesheet
> instead the original one. Hope it's clear from this rough  
> description. :)

Okay, I finally understand. Seeing Example 8.1 was the trick. There's  
a snag, though.

The stylesheets I'm working on are part of a framework [1], and the  
idea is that the user of the framework never needs to look at the  
stylesheets, just use them via the Ant script I provide. And I  
certainly don't want users to have to create customization layers,  
especially after seeing how complicated things get when supporting  
both FO and HTML [2]. All I want is for the user to create a single  
XSL file containing whatever parameters and attribute-sets he needs,  
then my customization layer(s) in the framework would simply import  
that file.

That would work great except for one problem: The user might place  
the file anywhere, so I can't hard-code its location into my  
customization layer. But the <xsl:import> command has to be hard- 
coded [3]!

What about doing a simple XML include [4]? Can that be parameterized?  
Or should I try generating the framework's customization layer on-the- 
fly, as Michael Kay suggests [3]?

Thanks,

Trevor

[1] http://hr-xsl.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ 
CustomMethods.html#CustomizingBoth
[3] http://sourceware.org/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg01525.html
[4] http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/includes/