Re: (dsssl) Dynamic defines

[Ron Ross <ronross@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was following this thread and just realized that I do somewhat the
same thing, using my own DTD, which has a "comment" element, not
DocBook.

The way I do it is to define a variable in my stylesheet having a
boolean value #t/#f, which I toggle by declaring it on the command line
to openjage (with the `-V' option). You could do this with the DocBook
driver (I haven't used DocBook since 3.0 or something, but I imagine the
mechanism hasn't changed). Defined as #f, as it is in the stylesheet,
the comments don't appear, called on the command line they do. So you
could simply do a `(define %draft% #f)', and then wrap the comment rule
(and whatever other procedures you might want for draft output) in an
`(if %draft% ...). Not quite the brainy programatic way of doing things,
but it works for me;-).

Cheers,

Ron


Devin Weaver <ktohg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I was wondering if there was a way to dynamically define a veriable
> depending on the value of an attribute in the root tag.
> 
> For an example (DocBook):
>     <?xml version="1.0"?>
>     <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
>                    "http://www.oasis-open/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd";>
>     <book lang="en" id="book1" status="draft">
> 	<chapter id="ch1">
> 	    <para>This is a para. <remark>This is a
> 	    comment.</remark></para>
> 	<chapter>
>     </book>
> 
> I want to (define %show-comments% #t) only if status="draft"
> The problem is in my custom dsl the current-node has yet to be defined
> so there is no way for me to get at the attributs of book. and even if
> I did the root element can change. (Could be article, part, set, etc.)
> 
> Anyone know how this could be done?
> 
> -- 
> f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
> 
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