Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 + adding customized attribute and value to p ta

Hi, there,

I am trying to add custom attribute values to all para tags inside a specific chapter(the reason for this will be explained in a later question).

About a year or so ago, Bob suggested a way to insert new attributes and values into html output.
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201108/msg00091.html

However, when I try it using the epub 3 stylesheets, it doesn't succeed:

My goal here is to add a custom attribute and value for every p tag inside the <chapter xml:id="mypreface">

******************************* MY SOURCE XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?oxygen RNGSchema="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbook.rng" type="xml"?>

<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="robert-book">

    <chapter xml:id="mypreface">
        <title>First</title>
        <para> this is my good <emphasis role="bold">bold </emphasis>first para</para>
        <para> This is my good second para</para>

    </chapter>

    <chapter xml:id="bad1">
        <title>Second</title>
        <para> this is my bad<emphasis role="bold">bold</emphasis>first para</para>
        <para> This is my bad second para</para>
    </chapter>

    <chapter xml:id="bad2">
        <title>Third </title>
        <para> 2this is my bad<emphasis role="bold">bold</emphasis>first para</para>
        <para> 2 This is my bad second para</para>
    </chapter>

*************************************************************MY CUSTOMIZATION LAYER

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
exclude-result-prefixes="d date saxon" version="1.0">

<xsl:import href=""/>

<xsl:template match="chapter[@xml:id = 'mypreface']/para" >
    <xsl:param name="width" select="local-name(.)"/>
    <xsl:attribute name="width">50px</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

*********************************************************************
(I also changing the xpath statement to d:chapter[@xml:id = 'preface']/d:para with the same result)

I would expect every p tag in the RESULT output to contain 'width="50px". But instead I see for the first chapter this result:

...
<body><header></header>
<section class="chapter" title="First" epub:type="chapter" id="mypreface">
<div class="titlepage">
   <div>
      <div><h1 class="title">First</h1></div>
   </div>
</div>
<p>   this is my good <span class="bold"><strong>bold </strong></span>first para</p>
<p>   This is my good second para</p></section><footer></footer></body>
************************************************************************************

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong; have I written the xpath wrong? For the previous xsl snippet Bob suggested which I used for adding custom attributes, this was pre-epub3. How would you do this in epub3? Or am I making a syntax error of some sort?

Thanks for your help

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