RE: [xsl] struggling with avt's

[DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Jeni.

> I'm just a bit worried that you've misinterpreted what David was
> saying. You're going to find it very difficult (read impossible in the
> general case) to go from:
> 
> <doc>
>  <para html='p' pdf='fo:block' attset='para font'>This is .... </para>
> </doc>
> 
> via a single stylesheet including attribute sets for 'para' and 'font'
> to get to an XSL-FO document that includes the attributes defined in
> that attribute set in just one step.

Sort of.

exept that I have 3 directories for 5 media,
so I'm effectively applying one stylesheet per media using
the same markup.

As seen in the fresh light of day,

My 'boiler plate' now looks like

<fsubsect1 media='print'>

  <head2  media='html pdf print'  attset='head1 font'>INTRODUCTION</head2>

  <para  media='html print pdf' attset='para font'>When you have found the
books you wish to read, you can add these
titles to your current selection list, ......
<il media='print pdf html'  attset='emph'>press and hold</il> the bookmark
key. The guide voice will say "bookmark one
inserted" (the bookmark number will increase with each insertion). The
disc will continue to play.

</para>


The processing through to xml is done moded,

<xsl:template match='para[contains(@media, "print")]' mode='intro'>
  <p><xsl:apply-templates mode='intro'/></p>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match='il[contains(@media, "print")]' mode='intro'>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test='contains(@attset, "emph")'>
      <b><xsl:apply-templates mode='intro'/></b>
    </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


For the fo processing I have:

 <xsl:template match='head2[contains(@media,"pdf")]' mode='intro'>
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test='contains(@attset,"head2")'>
          <xsl:element name='fo:block'  use-attribute-sets='head2 font'>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
          </xsl:element>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
          <xsl:message terminate='yes'>
            intro.xml. content has head block without head2 attribute sets!
            Stopping processing:
          </xsl:message>
        </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>

With all the attribute sets included in the same xsl file.
I need to tighten this up

Works so far, html won't be too much addition.

I don't try and output n media from one stylesheet though, which would
be pretty hairy!

I don't need to make it all that general purpose.
head1 head2 para inline
are sufficient for the boiler plate I'm doing, so I can trigger off
the element.
The wrappers are only needed for one media.



regards DaveP



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