Re: [docbook-apps] Convert a relative file link to a URL in docbook

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013, at 21:13, Natalie Kershaw wrote:
> <xsl:template match="d:link[@role='relative']">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">
>       <xsl:value-of select="concat('http://prefix/', @xlink:href)"/>
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:copy>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="d:link"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> This seems to half-work in that it does prepend the prefix to the link
> href, but then it does not convert the link element into FO.

Bob already described, why it doesn't work. However you can quite easily
use this approach. Use profiling stylesheets (ones starting with
profile-, eg. profile-docbook.xsl) and put your template into profile
mode. By default profile mode copies source document and you can change
this behaviour to do some changes in your source document, for example:

<xsl:template match="d:link[@role='relative']" mode="profile">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href">
      <xsl:value-of select="concat('http://prefix/', @xlink:href)"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:apply-templates mode="profile"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

That should do the trick.

Jirka

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