Re: [docbook-apps] Something like an attribute-set, but different

[Geraint North <geraint@transitive.com>]

That's great - I didn't realise that the parameters could be  
dynamically configured in that way (but of course they can be,  
thinking about it) - that will make life very easy indeed.

Thanks,

Geraint North
Principal Engineer
Transitive


On 12 Dec 2007, at 19:29, Thomas Schraitle wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007, Geraint North wrote:
>>
>> I've got a few situations where I'd like to set some attributes based
>> on some top-level properties of my DocBook Book.  For example:
>> - If the <book>'s lang is "ja", use a set of Japanese fonts, rather
>> than the defaults.
>
> That's pretty easy. You have to create a customization layer as  
> shown in
> [1] and insert the following parameter:
>
>  <xsl:param name="body.font.family">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="/book/@lang='ja'">
>       <xsl:text><!-- Insert your fonts here --></xsl:text>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>serif</xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
>  </xsl:param>
>
> Probably you need to configure the other parameters like  
> sans.font.family
> as well (see [2]).
>
>
>> - If the confidentiality level of the document (my own tag) is
>> "Confidential", print the chapter titles in black rather than blue.
>
> For this check I need to know where your confidentiality element is
> allowed.
>
> I am not 100% sure, maybe there are better methods, but you can  
> change the
> attribute set chapter.titlepage.recto.style (untested):
>
>  <xsl:attribute-set name="chapter.titlepage.recto.style">
>    <xsl:attribute name="color">
>      <xsl:choose>
>        <!-- Adapt the XPath in test to your needs -->
>        <xsl:when test="/*/confidentiality = 'Confidental'">
>          <xsl:text>black</xsl:text>
>        </xsl:when>
>        <xsl:otherwise>blue</xsl:otherwise>
>      </xsl:choose>
>    </xsl:attribute>
>  </xsl:attribute-set>
>
> Insert it into your customization layer too. :)
>
>
> Hope that helps,
> Tom
>
> ---------
> [1]
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ 
> CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer
> [2] http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/ 
> fonts.html
>
>
> -- 
> Thomas Schraitle
>
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