HTML Chunking confusion...

[Nic Gibson <nicg@corbas.net>]

Hi all

I'm looking at adding some additional logic to the chunking code because we need some additional nodes to create chunks. I'm overriding the named 'chunk' template from chunk-common.xsl. I've been trying to work out why changing the value of chunk.section.depth does nothing in my code. I solved that but came up with something that I'm not sure about. The following is from the chunk template (reformatted for readability)

<xsl:when test="local-name($node) = 'section'   
	and $chunk.section.depth &gt;= count($node/ancestor::section)+1    
	and ($chunk.first.sections != 0   or count($node/preceding-sibling::section) &gt; 0)">

		<xsl:call-template name="chunk">
               	<xsl:with-param name="node" select="$node/parent::*"/>
               </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>

I'm using chunkfast.xsl. The chunk template is called by the template which finds chunks (<xsl:template match="*" mode="chunk-filename"/> in chunk-code.xsl). As far as I can see, with a namespaced document, chunkfast.xsl will populate it's tracking variable (chunk.hierarchy) by processing the input before namespaces are stripped. So, how does " count($node/ancestor::section)" ever count anything? What have I missed?



thanks (from a confused)


nic
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Nic Gibson
Corbas Consulting
Digital Publishing Consultancy and Training
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Nic Gibson
Corbas Consulting
Digital Publishing Consultancy and Training
http://www.corbas.co.uk, +44 (0)7718 906817