Re: handling tags and PIs within a macro

is it possible to state in the template that when
there is no <fid> element, the corresponding
formalpara has no ID?

Best regards,
Nancy

--- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  
> > <formalpara id="admin/user/fullname">
> I'm pretty sure that id in docbook is of type ID so
> it is not valid to
> have a / in the id string.
> 
> 
> > <formalpara id="">
> or for the id to be empty.
> 
> Note these are docbook language issues nothing to do
> with XSLT.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > in which FOP spots a problem for some reason:
> FOP never saw the file you posted (which was
> docbook) it needs to see an
> XSL-FO file (that will start off <fo:root>... and
> have elements like
> <fo:block, The stylesheet generates an FO file from
> the docbook file and
> FOP converts the FO file to pdf.
> 
> I have't looked at how the docbook stylesheets
> expand %t and friends but
> it is quite likely that they need to see the full
> docbook markup with
> all the id's in place.
> 
> That is you need to expand your private docbook
> extensions before
> calling the docbook styleheet, so you need three
> stages
> 
> 1) your own stylesheet that is an "identity
> transform" with additional
>    templates that expands j_enty out to a
> <formalpara and any other
>    similar local elements that you need to remove
> 
> The output from that stylesheet should then be a
> valid docbook file with
> no local additions which you can then process using
> teh docbook
> stylesheets, so
> 
> 2) process with the docbook stylesheet to get an FO
> file
> 
> 3) process with FOP to get PDF.
> 
> David
> 
>
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