RE: [docbook] customize xslt or customize the schema?

["Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

Tim,

To the extent that I understand what you are trying
to do, I think I'd go with customizing the stylesheet.
I prefer not to mess with the schema unless I have to.

Dick Hamilton
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Arnold [mailto:Tim.Arnold@sas.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:36 AM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook] customize xslt or customize the schema?
> 
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to decide how best to solve a problem I have 
> with some tech documentation.
> The doc is originally in LaTeX and I'm converting to DocBook 
> 5 (using plasTeX). The doc contains both Figure and 'Output'  
> elements.
> When rendered, a Figure is numbered as chapter.figure
> 
> The 'Output' element is like a  Figure, but appears only in 
> Examples, and is numbered as chapter.example.output
> 
> There are of course references to both Figures and Outputs.
> 
> Which way should I go for this situation--add a new element 
> by customizing the schema or customize the xsl stylesheets to 
> use different numbering and gentext? I can differentiate 
> between the two with xpath. (something like this: 
> chapter//figure versus chapter/example/figure@remap=Output)
> 
> thanks for any insights.
> --Tim Arnold
> 
> 
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