Re: [docbook-apps] issue with 1.79.1 stylesheets and table id

[Tim Arnold <jtim.arnold@gmail.com>]

I just noticed that I had a typo in the source xml (misspelled xmlns). 

I fixed that typo, downloaded docbook-xsl-ns-1.79.1 from sourceforge, and changed the xsl to point to the newly unzipped stylesheets. Confident that the typo was the issue, I converted again:

  <xsl:import href="">

  <xsl:template mode="htmlTableAtt" select="@xml:id"/>

I still get <table xml:id="one.two.three">

I also tried the non namespaced stylesheet and I get 

Note: namesp. cut : stripped namespace before processing           My Chapter

The table still contains the id, but without the xml namespace (which I think is what would be expected).

So, I'm sorry to be a pest, but I don't see how this is happening.

Do you have a test case I can run?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

Hi,
I think what is happening here is that you have DocBook 5 document written in the DocBook namespace but are using the non-namespaced version of the stylesheet that is better matched to DocBook 4.  When that happens, the stylesheet detects the namespace, and then converts the document to DocBook 4 before applying formatting templates.  Part of that conversion is to change each instance of xml:id in the document to id, so that your new template does not match.

The solution is to either switch to the namespaced version of the stylesheets (recommended for Docbook 5), or change the customized template to match="@id".

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net