Re: [docbook-apps] docbook qandaset

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:20:32 +0200
> Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   I'd like to prepare some exercise for some presentation I will be
>> doing. I am looking at qandaset as it seems the most appropriate for
>> doing question and answer style document. However I'd like to hide the
>> answer when presenting the question.
>>
>> I tried a simple approach using hard-break
>> (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html). But this fails
>> with:
>>
>>   Error reported by XML parser: The prefix "fo" for element "fo:block"
>> is not bound.
>
> You've forgot to add the FO namespace. Check the header of your
> stylesheet:
>
>  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                 xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
>                 version='1.0'>
>

Indeed. That fixed the issue.

>> So my question is: is there another way of doing this ?
>> My initial approach was to use foil (from slides), but there is not
>> such properties as foil.autolabel for numbering of questions.
>>
>> I am generating PDF output so I cannot use:
>> https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201201/msg00083.html
>
> The usual approach is to write a customization layer. Here you can find
> how to do it:
>
> http://doccookbook.sourceforge.net/html/en/dbc.common.dbcustomize.html
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer
>
> Add in your customization layer an empty answer template like this:
>
>  <xsl:template match="answer"/>
>
> Whenever you process your document with your own customization layer,
> all the answers will be suppressed.

I am not looking for something like:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/HideAnswers.html

I want to be able to display the question on the videoproject, leave 5
min to think, then display the answer. I really mean 'hide'
temporarily, not remove.

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu