RE: [docbook-apps] Adding page number prefix

["Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Frederikssen 
> 
> I'm a newbie in DocBook so DocBook gurus, please forgive me 
> questions you might find silly :-)


There are no silly questions! Welcome to the world of DocBook.

 
> I'm trying to add a page number prefix (e.g. chapter number) 
> to actual page numbers using the customized stylesheet: 
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/PageNumberPrefixes. 
> 
> This is what I did:
> 
> - I copied-and-pasted this stylesheet to the file and saved 
> it as pagenumberprefix.xsl in the same directory where all FO 
> templates are stored.
> 
> - In pagenumberprefix.xsl I added <xsl:import href="docbook.xsl"/>.
> 
> - In the command line I typed java 
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in book.xml -xsl 
> pagenumberprefix.xsl -out book.fo
> 
> - Then I run FOP and got a PDF file.
> 
> - I did no changes to the rest of the stylesheets. 
> 
> In this PDF file, I can see that prefixes were added to the 
> TOC indeed, though, page numbers remain the same (1,2,3, etc.)
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated!


I don't think you are doing anything wrong. But the page number prefix
customization was made for a rather old version of DocBook XSL. I guess that
modifications in later versions clash with this customization. It's not much
of an answer, but I haven't looked very deeply into this.
 
/MJ