Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Arbitrarily start section numbering?

[Joshua Wulf <jwulf@redhat.com>]

Thanks Bob, this works really well for sections with numbers like 6.2. However, if I try it passing in 11.3.1 I get: 

XPath error : Invalid expression
11.3.1
    ^
runtime error
Evaluating user parameter start.numbering.at failed


Is there a way to get it to work to a depth of three or four sub-sections?

- Josh

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> To: "Joshua Wulf" <jwulf@redhat.com>, "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 4:48:41 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Arbitrarily start section numbering?
> 
> [moving this over to the docbook-apps mailing list where stylesheet issues
> are discussed]
> 
> Yes, this can be done with a small customization:
> 
> <xsl:param name="start.numbering.at" select="0"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="section" mode="label.markup">
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="$start.numbering.at != 0 and not(ancestor::section)">
>       <xsl:value-of select="$start.numbering.at"/>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:apply-imports/>
>     </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> The 'label.markup' mode is used to generate a number for an element. In this
> case, it only applies to top level sections. Or you could test to see if it
> is the root element by using not(ancestor::*).  Nested sections are numbered
> from there because each level of section number is generated by first
> computing the ancestor numbers, so the first subsection would be 6.2.1.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Joshua Wulf" <jwulf@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 10:02 PM
> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: [docbook] Arbitrarily start section numbering?
> 
> > Can I give an argument to xsltproc to have the docbook style sheets
> > transform my section with an arbitrary section number, rather than
> > starting at "1"?
> >
> > I'd like to be able to do this, in essence:
> >
> > xsltproc --output myrenderedsection.html \
> >  --stringparam start.numbering.at 6.2 \
> >  html/docbook.xsl section.xml
> >
> > - Josh
> >
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