Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook assembly generation: missing top-level titles

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

Hi Graeme,
Use the <merge> element instead of <info> in structure or module for merged 
content like title. The DocBook TC decided that using info for merged 
elements had the effect of overloading info's semantics.  Normally info in 
DocBook contains metadata about its parent element, so that a revhistory in 
structure/info can describe the revisions in the assembly file.  We added 
<merge> to contain content to be merged with the resources being pulled in. 
Currently any elements contained in info in an assembly is not included in 
the assembled document, as you discovered.

BTW, title is no longer valid as a child of structure.  See Norm's 
documentation at:

  http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/structure.html

So the bug here is that title worked.  8^)

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

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From: <graeme@heliocentrik.net>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:08 AM
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook assembly generation: missing top-level 
titles

> Hi Robert,
> Thanks for your reply. That certainly works as you suggest:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0"
> xml:id="mcw-data-storage-guide"><title>Article
> Title</title><section><section version="5.0"><info>
>      <title xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
>      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
>      xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
>      xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";
>      xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
>      xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";>Thing1</title>
>
> However, I'm not clear on why it should be necessary to do it that way.
> The DocBook guide provides examples where the <title> element is inside
> a <book><info> hierarchy. Plus, it's inconsistent with other title
> elements (e.g. the module-level title in my original example).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graeme
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013, at 12:34, Robert Fekete wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > have you tried putting the title outside the <info> tag?
> > Like:
> > <structure xml:id="guide">
> >   <output renderas="article"/>
> > <title>My Article Title</title>
> >   <module renderas="section">
> >
> > I use it that way with the same toolchain and it works for me.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > On 06/07/2013 10:41 AM, graeme@heliocentrik.net wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > I'm using version 1.78.1 of the DocBook stylesheets to generate 
> > > articles
> > > from DocBook assembly. Which is nice! But here's my problem: top-level
> > > element titles are missing from the output.
> > >
> > > Given this structure, the output is lacking its top-level element title
> > > (in this case, the article title):
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > <assembly xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
> > > xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";>
> > > <resources xml:base="topics/reference">
> > > ...
> > >      </resources>
> > > <structure xml:id="guide">
> > > <output renderas="article"/>
> > > <info>
> > > <title>My Article Title</title>
> > > </info>
> > > <module renderas="section">
> > > <info>
> > > <title>My Section</title>
> > > </info>
> > > <module resourceref="guide-articles"/>
> > > <module resourceref="guide--lists"/>
> > > </module>
> > > <module resourceref="guide-thing1"/>
> > > <module resourceref="guide-thing2"/>
> > > <module resourceref="guide-thing3"/>
> > > </structure>
> > > </assembly>
> > >
> > > Here's the snipped output of assemble.xsl:
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0"
> > > xml:id="guide">
> > > <section>
> > > <section version="5.0">
> > > <info>
> > > <title
> > > xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
> > > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";
> > > xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
> > > xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";
> > > xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
> > > xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";>Thing
> > > 1</title>
> > > </info>
> > > <para>The text of thing1</para>
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't quite understand how it could miss out this detail.
> > >
> > > I'm using xsltproc to run the stylesheet transformation.
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Graeme
> > >
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