Re: [docbook] mediaobject fileref troubles

[Patrick Eisenacher <eisenacher@fillmore-labs.com>]

Ok, so this was the reason: xsltproc does not support textdata, yet. 
When I changed over to using xincludes, xsltproc works fine and produces 
the expected result.

Daniel, do you plan to include support for textdata in one of the next 
releases of xsltproc?

Thanks to Bob and Tobias for their help.

Patrick


Bob Stayton schrieb:
> Text insertions are handled by a docbook XSL extension
> function.  Graphics files are simply referenced in the
> output, but a text file has to be filtered to escape
> angle brackets and ampersands.  See this reference
> to see what you need for text insertions:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/SolveProblems.html#ProgramListings
> 
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:57:12PM +0200, Patrick Eisenacher wrote:
> 
>>Hmm, anybody any ideas?
>>
>>Patrick
>>
>>Patrick Eisenacher schrieb:
>>
>>>Heyho,
>>>
>>>so far I used markup like the following to include graphics into my 
>>>document:
>>>
>>><mediaobject>
>>>    <imageobject>
>>>        <imagedata fileref="Specification/ArchitectureClient.png" 
>>>format="PNG" align="center" />
>>>    </imageobject>
>>></mediaobject>
>>>
>>>This worked fine for a graphic named "ArchitectureClient.png" residing 
>>>in a subfolder named "Specification", which is contained in the same 
>>>folder as my document. Ie, I used a path relative to the target 
>>>document's folder to reference the graphic object.
>>>
>>>Now, I wanted to do the same to include a textfile via the <textdata> tag:
>>>
>>><mediaobject>
>>>    <textobject>
>>>        <textdata fileref="Specification/LicenseOffer.xml">
>>>    </textobject>
>>></mediaobject>
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, this doesn't work.
>>>
>>>I see an xlink in the generated html, but the textfile gets not included:
>>>
>>><div class="mediaobject">
>>><a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" type="simple" show="embed" 
>>>actuate="onLoad" href="Specification/LicenseOffer.xml"></a>
>>></div>
>>>
>>>So probably, the browser can not resolve the path to the textfile. I 
>>>read that I have to set xml:base if I want to use xlink with relative 
>>>paths. But where and how do I set it? And how do I set xml:base to the 
>>>current directory of my document? Or am I doing something else wrong? If 
>>>I have to set xml:base indeed, this seems to be an inconsistent 
>>>behaviour in the usage of <mediaobject>. Perhaps some info should be 
>>>added to TDG.
>>>
>>>I also tried referencing my text file via an absolute path, but that 
>>>didn't help neither. Same result :o( How would I have to specify the 
>>>absolute path to "C:\Programme\Specification\LicenseOffer.xml"? I guess 
>>>the path gets processed by the browser and not by the xsltprocessor, right?
>>>
>>>I tried the following alternatives, but to no avail (I'm using Cygwin 
>>>for processing docbook):
>>>C:\Programme\Specification\LicenseOffer.xml
>>>file:///C:/Programme/Specification/LicenseOffer.xml
>>>file:///cygdrive/c/Programme/Specification/LicenseOffer.xml
>>>file:////cygdrive/c/Programme/Specification/LicenseOffer.xml
>>>/cygdrive/c/Programme/Specification/LicenseOffer.xml
>>>
>>>Can anybody please help?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>Patrick