external-graphic import error

["Darrell W. Royter" <droyter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

 

Last week I ad asked for help on importing a graphic and the response I received sent me on a trail so long I can't recall how I got to the point I'm at now.

 

What I am trying t odo is import graphics into my file, the names of which are in the SGML. I want to import those files without having to directly declare the file's name in my DSSSL by extracting the name out of the SGML.

 

I was told to try

 

(data (element "Name"))

 

but it didn't work.

 

I created this in a mode and tried to refernce it in my "(make external-graphic...entity-system-id (string append..", but that coughed up more errors.

 

So I dug around some more and came up with this

 

(element artwork
  (make external-graphic
    entity-system-id:
     (string-append
       (attribute-string
         (select-elements (children (ancestor "file")) "artwork"))".jpg")
    notation-system-id: "jpg" ))

 

Instead of getting the usual "Hey, you can't put a whatchamacallit in an atomic such and such" message,

I got this:

 

1st argument for primitive "attribute-string" of wrong type: "#<unknown object 13538296>" not a string.

 

I've only seen something like this posted on the archive from about 2 years ago on a similar issue. Is this a serious bug that I can't get around?

 

My other question, which is still my original question, is how can I get this to work? I still can't get a graphic to import unless I direclty state the file name in my DSSSL. I'd hate to use multiple DSSSL files because that would just open a second can of worms for me.

 

Thanks for all your help in the past!

 

Darrell W. Royter