Re: [docbook-apps] Customizing the topic element

[Robert Fekete <frobert@balabit.com>]

Hi Bob,

thank you very much for your help.
I'll try it.

Regards,

Robert

On 09/25/2012 07:09 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:

> Hi,
> You would need to modify the template for procedure to get the steps back in the
> correct order. In the template with match="procedure" in fo/lists.xsl, the
> $preamble variable is set to gather up everything in the procedure that is not a
> title or a step, in accordance with the content model for procedure. It also
> creates a $steps variable containing the step elements. If you adjust the
> definitions of those two variables to account for topic child of procedure, you
> should be able to retain the order of the imported steps.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Robert Fekete" <frobert@balabit.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:28 AM
> To: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Customizing the topic element
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am still trying to make it possible to xinclude a group of elements to
> > multiple places in a document, and be able to validate every file. The
> > simplified use-case is the following:
> >
> > file1.xml:
> > ...
> > <procedure>
> > <title>Procedure 1</title>
> > <step>Step 1
> > <step>Step 2
> > <step>
> > <xinclude href="file2.xml">
> > </procedure>
> > <procedure>
> > <title>Procedure 2</title>
> > <step>Step 1
> > <step>Step 2
> > <step>
> > <xinclude href="file3.xml">
> > </procedure>
> > ...
> > file2.xml (includes steps common for both procedures):
> > <topic>
> > <step>Common step 1
> > <step>Common step 2
> > <step>
> > </topic>
> >
> >
> > My problem is that when including file2, I get error messages:
> > "Element step in namespace 'http://docbook.org/ns/docbook' encountered in
> > topic, but no template matches."
> >
> > That's not surprising, so I added a custom template that (I hope) calls the
> > proper template for every element found in topic/step:
> > <xsl:template match="d:topic/d:step">
> > <xsl:for-each select="./*">
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
> > </xsl:for-each>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > However, in the output the steps from the topic are located at the top of the
> > procedure (and are not numbered), so it looks like:
> > Common step 1
> > Common step 2
> > 1. Step 1
> > 2. Step 2
> >
> > (Instead of
> > 1. Step 1
> > 2. Step 2
> > Common step 1
> > Common step 2
> > (Similar thing happens when xincluding a topic containing listitems into an
> > itemizedlist.)
> > )
> >
> > How can I tell the stylesheets to treat the child nodes of a topic as if the
> > topic node weren't there?
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
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