Re: [docbook-apps] Adding processing based on an attribute value

[Dave Cushman <dave@cushmanroad.com>]

Jeff,

I'm not sure that I completely understand your situation, but would  
profiling help?  You can assign attributes to tags you want to have  
included or excluded in the final PDF  (e.g. <para  
customer="supplier1">blah blah blah</para>).

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html

Dave

On Mar 20, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Jeff Hooker wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Docbook XSL 1.73.2 and FOP 0.93.
>
> Is there any straightforward way of checking to see if every element  
> in a document has a specific attribute attached, and if, so adding  
> some additional attributes to its block or inline element in the FO  
> output, and doing this without having to rewrite vast stretches of  
> the stylesheets?
>
> The basic need is that in my current PDF output, my reviewers have  
> no way of knowing if the content they're viewing is aimed at a  
> specific audience (small parts of many documents are specific to  
> certain suppliers or customers), so I'd like to cycle through every  
> element and add some styling to the block or inline element (i.e.  
> make it red) in the event that it is audience-specific. So far I  
> can't find any way of doing this that doesn't involve a mass of  
> element-level modifications, to the point where my modification  
> layer basically contains most of the FO stylesheets.
>
> Am I overcomplicating this? Any advice on a more intelligent  
> approach would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff.
>
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