RE: [docbook-apps] Setting the draft.watermark.image parameter value: solution

["Jeff Hooker" <Jeff_Hooker@pmc-sierra.com>]

Hi all,

Found one thing that works, still open to others. Set the value of the parameter using a processing instruction like so (basically cut-and-paste from Bob S's Docbook XSL book):

<xsl:param name="draft.watermark.image">
    <xsl:call-template name="dbfo-attribute">
      <xsl:with-param name="pis"
        select="//processing-instruction('dbfo')"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="attribute" select="'draft.watermark.image'"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:param>

Then I added a step to one of my preprocessing scripts that picks up the existence of a "watermark" element and creates the processing instruction at the root of the document:

<?dbfo draft.watermark.image="/docbook-xsl-1.73.2/fo/mods/watermarks.png"?>    

and it's all good.

Cheers,
Jeff.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hooker [mailto:Jeff_Hooker@pmc-sierra.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:40 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Setting the draft.watermark.image parameter
value


Technically right, but in my situation, wrong :(

My company uses a CMS that makes setting parameter values a nightmare. This is the main reason that I'm trying to do an end run around having to define them outside of the document.

Jeff.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Brown [mailto:johnbrown105@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:37 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Setting the draft.watermark.image parameter
value





Jeff Hooker wrote:

> Hi all,

> I'm trying to allow my users to set their own watermark simply
> by defining an image labeled "watermark" within their document. This
> means I need to set the value of the draft.watermark.image value
> dynamically. This is a little difficult because, as far as I can tell,
> the parameter value needs to be set before the target file is processed
> (makes sense, just inconvienent at the moment). Is there any boilerplate
> way of getting around this?

> Thanks,
> Jeff 

You could set the parameter on the command line to the value in an
environment variable. Using xsltproc on Windows would give:

C:\> xsltproc --stringparam draft.watermark.image %WATERMARK% ...

Each user could set his %WATERMARK% variable to whatever he wants,
without touching the source XML at all.


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