Docbook 4 to 5 conversion issues

[Iwan Aucamp <aucampia@gmail.com>]

Hi,

There is a bug with the docbook 4 to 5 conversion xslt (docbook-5.0/tools/db4-upgrade.xsl) - it drops step titles.

This is easy enough to fix in the style sheet, I just added step to the match of procedure - but I have some further issues with the conversion process.

The way title templates are applied breaks the ordering of the nodes - inserting the <info><title>... before all other nodes, which includes the text node that has the indentation ...

Example of this would be seen when converting something like:

<section>
    this text is not really valid but is just here to prove a point
    <title>atitle</title>
</section>

After conversion this is:

<section><info><title>atitle</title></info>
    this text is not really valid but is just here to prove a point
   
</section>

I would really like to not have this happen and retain order of the nodes so indentation stays where I put it originally.

So my question is - how would I go about fixing this, without changing too much of the style sheet ?

I tried changing the parts that applied the templates to procedure to a for loop - and then apply templates to the current node - but this does not seem to be possilbe.

Below is example of what i tried - the apply templates did not work the way I intended it to.

        <xsl:for-each select="node()">
            <xsl:comment>
            <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="local-name()=title">
                    <xsl:comment>tm</xsl:comment>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="self::node()" mode="copy"/>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:when test="local-name()=titleabbrev">
                    <xsl:comment>tm</xsl:comment>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="self::node()" mode="copy"/>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:when test="local-name()=subtitle">
                    <xsl:comment>tm</xsl:comment>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="self::node()" mode="copy"/>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                    <xsl:comment>tm</xsl:comment>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="self::node()"/>
                </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:for-each>

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards
Iwan Aucamp