Re: [docbook-apps] Preprocess ?

[Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca>]

On 04/07/2010 10:53 AM, Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi,
>
> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>    
>> On 04/07/2010 05:24 AM, Jacques Foucry wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I would like to make a kind of "preprocess" to my docbook's files but
>>> I don't know How to do that. Let me explain.
>>>
>>> Inside my sources file there is a lot of
>>> <imageobject conformance="custom_size">
>>>      <imagedata fileref="picture.tiff"/>
>>> </imageobject>
>>> <imageobject conformance="USLetters">
>>>      <imagedata fileref="picture.png"/>
>>> </imageobject>
>>>
>>> The value of profile.conformance is defined inside my custom stylesheet.
>>>
>>> The problem is how can I generate a docbook file (not a fop one) with
>>> only the right imageobject ?
>>>
>>>        
>> I believe that's exactly what profiling allows you to do.
>> Specifically, with two-phase processing:
>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/AlternateText.html#ProfileFilter
>>
>>      Stefan
>>
>>      
> This is interesting. Do you think one could use it to create a variant
> of the xsl? This would be useful if you need to apply the very same xsl
> to dozens of xml sources.
>    

I'm afraid I don't understand the question. What do you mean by "variant 
of the xsl" ? Are you suggesting to profile the stylesheets instead of 
the docbook sources themselves ?



Sorry,
         Stefan


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