Re: [docbook-apps] Adding releaseinfo to variable (to display in footer)

[Jen <jennee@gmail.com>]

Thanks so much, Bob! This was so obvious, I can't believe I missed it after spending a whole day last week adding "d:" to all the (other) elements...

In case anyone on the list is interested, I ended up with the following to add both the product name and the version to the variable:

<xsl:variable name="Version">

<xsl:value-of select="concat(/d:book/d:info/d:productname, /d:book/d:info/d:releaseinfo)"/>

</xsl:variable>

Jen

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

Hi Jen,

If you are using the namespaced version of the stylesheets (docbook-xsl-ns), then you need to add the  namespace to any element references in the stylesheet:

 

d:releaseinfo

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

From: Jen

Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 5:51 AM

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject: [docbook-apps] Adding releaseinfo to variable (to display in footer)

Hi everyone,

Hoping for a little help yet again :) I'd like my footers to display the value of the <releaseinfo> element (in the example below, 3.2), but they are empty in PDF output. I'm pretty sure that the variable that should hold the version never gets populated, but I don't understand why.

(In the future, I'd like to have productname+releaseinfo, but I got stuck before having to figure out concatenations.)

In my XML, I have this:

<book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0">

<info>

<title>CTU User Guide</title>

<releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo>

<productname>CTU></productname>

</info>

[...]

</book>

In my XSL, I have:

<xsl:variable name="Version">

<xsl:when test="//releaseinfo">

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:text>CTU </xsl:text>

<xsl:value-of select="//releaseinfo"/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

                  CTU 3.0

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:variable>

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$sequence='blank'">

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $position = 'left'">

<xsl:value-of select="$Version"/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided = 0 and $position = 'center'">

<!-- nop -->

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<fo:page-number/>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$pageclass='titlepage'">

<!-- nop: other titlepage sequences have no footer -->

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'even' and $position='left'">

<fo:page-number/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'odd' and $position='right'">

<fo:page-number/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided = 0 and $position='right'">

<fo:page-number/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'odd' and $position='left'">

<xsl:value-of select="$Version"/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'even' and $position='right'">

<xsl:value-of select="$Version"/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:when test="$double.sided = 0 and $position='left'">

<xsl:value-of select="$Version"/>

</xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

<!-- nop -->

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

(This part is a bit messy, I think, but I inherited the customization layer and I don't want to mess with it too much.)

If anyone can shed any light, it would help a ton - I'm very new to all this and it gets confusing at times.

Thanks,

Jen