Re: [docbook-apps] <cite> with class and title

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Peter,
I think the appropriate element in DocBook would be <citetitle>. The 
default formatting of citetitle is just italic, so you would need to 
create a customized XSL template to generate <cite>.  I would suggest 
you copy the template named 'inline.italicseq' from inline.xsl to your 
customization layer and modify it to match on "d:citetitle" and output 
<cite> instead of <em>.

When you include the call to the template named 
"common.html.attributes", that will add a class="citetitle" to the output.

For the title attribute, it has to be plain text, so that can be done 
with something like this in the template:

<xsl:attribute name="title">
  <xsl:variable name="formatted">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($formatted)"/>
</xsl:attribute>

Taking the value-of removes any markup from the formatted text.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 8/14/2014 2:11 AM, Peter Fleck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a third-party javascript that requires the <cite> tag with the
> class and title populated.
> I can't work out how to do it in docbook.
>
> I have used the below as a temporary work around which works but would
> prefer it in docbook if possible.
> <html:cite class="---" title="---">Cited Content</html:cite>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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