Re: [docbook] Unhappy XEP: anchor as child of section

[David Priest <davidp@meyersound.com>]

How very odd. I don't know what I was doing wrong.  Now that I've  
asked for help, the problem went away.


On 09-Apr-3, at 10:20 AM, Bob Stayton wrote:

> Yes, you should be able to place the anchor as a child of section.   
> This is a deficiency of the stylesheet that it doesn't handle it.   
> It is similar to the problem of indexterms markers needing to exist  
> in both contexts.  If you would file a bug report on the DocBook  
> SourceForge site, it will get fixed.
>
> It hasn't come up before because when sections are processed, they  
> are normally put inside an fo:block, so the fo:inline is not output  
> at the top level.  I guess the context of your xi:include is not  
> inside a section element, right?
>
> Your customization works for me. I can't see why it would not work  
> for you. You might put an xsl:message inside it to see if it is  
> being reached, and debug from there.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Priest" <davidp@meyersound.com 
> >
> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 9:36 AM
> Subject: [docbook] Unhappy XEP: anchor as child of section
>
>
>> I would like to place an anchor as a direct child of a section, so   
>> that when I xi:include the content of the section, I have an  
>> anchor  with which to cross-reference the content.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the stock transformations always convert the anchor  
>> to  an inline, regardless the parentage of the anchor.
>>
>> (A) Is there a reason why I should not be able to insert an anchor  
>> as  the child of the section?
>>
>> (B) Assuming that I should be able to, why on earth is this   
>> customization to the templates not working?  I could swear the  
>> test  should work; it looks to be analogous to any number of  
>> examples in the  transformation code.  I is teh dumb, I guess.
>>
>>    <xsl:template match="d:anchor">
>>        <xsl:variable name="id">
>>            <xsl:call-template name="object.id"/>
>>        </xsl:variable>
>>        <xsl:choose>
>>            <xsl:when test="parent::d:section">
>>                <fo:block id="{$id}"/>
>>            </xsl:when>
>>            <xsl:otherwise>
>>                <fo:inline id="{$id}"/>
>>            </xsl:otherwise>
>>        </xsl:choose>
>>    </xsl:template>
>>
>> (For benefit of those who might search the mailing list for  
>> xi:include/ xinclude examples, I'm using variations on this  
>> construct:
>>
>> <xi:include
>> href="source.xml"
>>        xpointer="xmlns(db=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook)
>> xmlns(xi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude)
>> xpointer(//db:section[@xml:id='section_id']/db:title/following-  
>> sibling::*)"
>> />
>> )
>> -- 
>> David Priest  davidp@meyersound.com  priest@sfu.ca
>> Polaris       250.549.2558 x249
>> Documentation and Informatics Geek.
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David Priest  davidp@meyersound.com  priest@sfu.ca
Polaris       250.549.2558 x249
Documentation and Informatics Geek.
Django Ponies Wrangler.


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