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

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi,
Oh, that's a data type problem.  The XSLT processor is trying to interpret 
the value as a number.  Put the value inside single quotes to convert it to 
a string and then it should work.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: "Joshua Wulf" <jwulf@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 10:27 PM
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] Arbitrarily start section 
numbering?

> 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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