Re: [docbook-apps] MHRA and Docbook XSL

[Chris Yocum <cyocum@gmail.com>]

Hi Bob,
     Fantastic!  Thank you very much for this!

Chris

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> Regarding id matching, the id() function works with attributes that are
> specified in the DTD as attribute type ID.  Just because an attribute is
> named "id" does not make it of type ID.  If the DTD is not specified or is
> not read, then that association does not work.
>
> The stylesheets needed to handle documents that did not have a working
> reference to the DTD, so they use an XSL key (whose name happens to be "id")
> to create an index to all attributes with name "id" or "xml:id" (so it works
> with DocBook 4 and 5).  You can use this key in a customization layer as
> follows to get the node containing the id value specified by a linkend:
>
> select="key('id',@linkend)"
>
> I'm not sure it will help in your case, but this is more efficient than a
> global search for an id value using // in the xpath.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Yocum" <cyocum@gmail.com>
> To: "DavePawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
> Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] MHRA and Docbook XSL
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:22 PM, DavePawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Chris Yocum wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I just wanted to let everyone know that I have written up a first
>>> crack at MHRA styling in footnotes for Docbook.
>>
>> What's MHRA please, for others as ignorant as myself?
>
> Ah, Sorry.  MHRA stands for the Modern Humanities Research Association
> (http://www.mhra.org.uk/).
>
>>
>>
>>> There are a few limitations at the moment. Everything is linked
>>> to the book tag at the top of the document and thus can only support
>>> books at the moment. This is because I couldn't use the ancestor axis
>>> to match the linkend attribute of the biblioref tag to something in
>>> the bibliography as the bibliography is not an ancestor (it is an
>>> ancestral sibling). I am casting about for ways to allow articles to
>>> join the fun.
>>
>> Are you using <link linkend=''> ?
>> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/link.html
>
> No, I am using biblioref which as a linkend attribute.  I link the
> linkend attribute with the xml:id of the biblioentry in the
> bibliography.
>
>>
>> In which case you should be able to use the id function?
>> ( id(@linkend) to get to the target)
>
> I tried that and it didn't seem to work so I ended up using
> @id=@linkend, which did seem to work.
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts or feedback, I would be very
>>> grateful to hear them. Also, I can provide an example bibliography on
>>> request. Thank you very much for your time.
>>
>>
>> Since I'm in no position to say it's 'correct' or not,
>> I'll leave that to others!
>
> That's ok.  Thank you for your questions and interest!
>
> All the best,
> Chris
>
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