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

[Natalie Kershaw <nkershaw@gmail.com>]

Thank you! I will try this out. 

On 18/09/2013, at 4:03 AM, "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

> What a great idea.  That looks to be very useful for a variety of purposes.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
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> From: "Jirka Kosek" <jirka@kosek.cz>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:33 AM
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> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Convert a relative file link to a URL in docbook
> 
>> 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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