Re: [docbook-apps] Conceptual problem formatting <preface> material

[Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>]

On 1 Nov 2010, at 19:21, Bob Stayton wrote:

> Oops, hit Send by accident on the previous mail.
> 
> I did omit a crucial piece of information.  In the first template I meant to process it in a mode other than normal mode:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="preface[@role = 'something']" mode="frontmatter"/>
> 
> and that uses the template with:
> 
> <xsl:template match="preface[@role = 'something']" mode="frontmatter">
>  actually processing goes here
> </xsl:template>
> 
> and the empty template is for normal mode (without a mode attribute).  Hope that makes more sense.

It does make much more sense :-)

Thanks Bob and Guiseppe! I may have more questions as I get further up the creek without a paddle...

Cheers,

Chris